"The final solution for unemployment is work."
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"We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance."
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"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
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"It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new."
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"I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry."
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"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws."
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"When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights."
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"Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity."
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"The country is not in good condition."
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"The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration."
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"If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it."
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"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising."
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"The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility."
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"School is not the end but only the beginning of an education."
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"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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"I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion."
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"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."
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"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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"America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce."
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"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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