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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Bills Goodness Important Man
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Accomplishment Myself Politics

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