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Calvin Coolidge: “Nothing is more likely to produce that public confidence which is the forerunner and the mainstay of prosperity…”

On the recordDecember 2, 1924
Nothing is more likely to produce that public confidence which is the forerunner and the mainstay of prosperity, encourage and enlarge business opportunity with ample opportunity for employment at good wages, provide a larger market for agricultural products, and put our country in a stronger position to be able to meet the world competition in trade, than a continuing policy of economy.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Second Annual Message

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