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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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" Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. "

" You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. "

" I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. "

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" 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. "

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

" In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. "

" Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. "

" The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. "

" When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. "

" 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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" Nothing in this 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. "

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

" There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. "

" We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. "

" 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. "

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

" I have never been hurt by what I have not said. "

" Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. "

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

" Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. "

" The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. "

" We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. "

" 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. "

" Advertising is the life of trade. "

" 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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