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

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
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
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
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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity

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