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Money will not purchase character or good government.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
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
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
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery

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