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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
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
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
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
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself

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