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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness

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