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Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising is the life of trade.”

- Calvin Coolidge

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Printer's Ink, Volume 137, 1926, p. 3

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Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.”

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Calvin Coolidge

“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.”

- Calvin Coolidge

Source/Notes: The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001 edition), Images from the Past Inc

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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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“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.”

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“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.”

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“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

- Calvin Coolidge

Source/Notes: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses (2001 edition), The Minerva Group, Inc. - ISBN: 9781589635388

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Calvin Coolidge

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”

- Calvin Coolidge

Source/Notes: New York Times, 6 March 1955. As quoted in: Hearings, Volume 3, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, 1969

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Calvin Coolidge

“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

- Calvin Coolidge

Source/Notes: Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing - ISBN: 9781417926084

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Calvin Coolidge

“Duty is not collective; it is personal.”

- Calvin Coolidge

Source/Notes: Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing - ISBN: 9781417926084

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Calvin Coolidge

“Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.”

- 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

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“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”

- 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

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