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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
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
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
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

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