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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
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
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
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
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
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
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
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble

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