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| Calvin Coolidge
"Baseball is our national game.""It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport."After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government... Economy is always a guarantee of peace. 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. 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. It takes a great man to be a good listener. 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. No man ever listened himself out of a job. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination.Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. 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. O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour. One with the law is a majority. Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. The business of America is 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. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.You lose. |
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