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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.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
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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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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