“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is…” Calvin Coolidge

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book
- Motivation & Goals
The business of America is business.
Speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925).
- America
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book
- Motivation & Goals

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