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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
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
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law

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