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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Calvin Coolidge

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

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