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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

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
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
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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
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
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation

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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