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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Calvin Coolidge

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

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