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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
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
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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money

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