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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.

Calvin Coolidge

You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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
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
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
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness 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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong

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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