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Calvin Coolidge: “Everywhere selfishness is giving way to service, idleness to industry, wastefulness to thrift.”

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Everywhere selfishness is giving way to service, idleness to industry, wastefulness to thrift.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge contrasts selfishness with service, emphasizing a shift towards industriousness and thrift.

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