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Calvin Coolidge
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"The business of America is business."
America
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Business
"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
America
"Advertising is the life of trade."
Business
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
Christmas
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
Courage
"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
Democracy
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
Economics
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
Failure
"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
God
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Government
"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."
Government
"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
Luck
"Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still."
Miscellaneous
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
Miscellaneous
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
Miscellaneous
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
Morality
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Motivation & Goals
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence."
Motivation & Goals
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
Patriotism
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
Politics
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