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(1872-1933) elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States in 1923 after Harding died.

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Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

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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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

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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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I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them.

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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.

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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.

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If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred or leased, it must be recovered. I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such actions for the enforcement of the law. Counsel will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there is any fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced. And every right of the people and the Government will be protected.

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If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.

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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

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More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.

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Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

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No man ever listened himself out of a job.

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No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

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Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

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One with the law is a majority.

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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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