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Calvin Coolidge: “If they will continue industrious and thrifty, contented with fair wages and moderate profits, and the returns which…”

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If they will continue industrious and thrifty, contented with fair wages and moderate profits, and the returns which accrue from the development of oar natural resources, our prosperity will extend itself indefinitely.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge encourages industriousness and contentment as keys to sustaining prosperity.

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