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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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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.
Calvin Coolidge
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge -
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge -
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
Calvin Coolidge -
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge -
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge -
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
Calvin Coolidge -
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.
Calvin Coolidge -
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge -
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge -
Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge -
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge -
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge -
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge -
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge -
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge -
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge -
Your letter is received, accompanied by a newspaper clipping which discusses the possibility that a colored man may be the Republican nominee for Congress from one of the New York districts.
Calvin Coolidge -
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge