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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time

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