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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
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
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
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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