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

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
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
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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

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