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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

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
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government

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