Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Calvin Coolidge quotes

Advertising is the life of trade.
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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.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
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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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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Education will not (take the place of persistance); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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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.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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 you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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