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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.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
- Business
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
- Government
The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
Ann Coulterborn 1961“Obama Is Not A Muslim” (September 1, 2010).
- Clever Jabs
- Presidency
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938
- Presidency
The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Speech at the Emancipation League (12 February 1862), Boston
- Race
We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. … We are here, and here we are likely to be.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895“The Destiny of Colored Americans”, The North Star (16 November 1849)
- Race
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
- Holidays
- Slavery
We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go on with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895“The Destiny of Colored Americans”, The North Star (16 November 1849)
- Race
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963Niagara Movement, “Address to the Country”, Harpers Ferry (19 August 1906)
- Education
The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, but we have the Western.
Robert Duvall1931–2026“Robert Duvall reflects on The Godfather in final USA TODAY interview” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today (16 February 2026)
- Movies
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
Thomas Edison1847–1931The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
- Politics
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII1894–1972Look magazine (5 March 1957).
- Children
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Viereck interview (1929)
- Money
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969