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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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

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