“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
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“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“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
Author: Calvin Coolidge
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“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Category: business
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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.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Category: time
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Category: education
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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.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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Category: nature
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“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.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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Category: power
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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.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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Category: experience
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