1. “I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman
who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
2. “Peace, plenty, and contentment reigns throughout our borders,
and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”
3. “I have always been afraid of banks.”
4. “ Now millions of Americans are forced to go into debt today
because the Federal Government decided to go into debt yesterday.”
5. “The pay is good and I can walk to work.”
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Did You Know?
The $100,000 Gold Certificate features Woodrow Wilson and is the highest denomination bank note printed by the United States government. The note was
not designed for general circulation and was used only for bank-to-bank transfers.
6. “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
7. “About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
8. “I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to
straighten it out in my mind. But I don’t know where the book is, and maybe I couldn’t read it if I found it.”
9. “There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
10. “He mocks the people who propose that the governments shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the
laboring poor.”
11. “Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make
good use of it.”
12. “ I never found that Wall Street is a good source of economic
advice.”
13. “Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more
millionaires, the more paupers.”
14. “The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”
15. “I recommend the observance of strict economy in the appropriation and expenditure of public money.”
16. “Our present financial condition is without parallel in history. No
nation has ever before been embarrassed from too large a surplus in its treasury.”
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The only living President to appear on a coin was Calvin Coolidge. He is portrayed with George Washington on the 1926 Sesquicentennial of American
Independence commemorative half dollar.
17. “Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
18. “I am fully persuaded that it would be difficult to devise a system
superior to that by which the fiscal business of the Government is now conducted.”
19. “Property is the fruit of labor . . . property is desirable . . . is a positive good in the world. That some
should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”
20. “I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a
rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”
21. “The business of America is business.”
22. “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a
government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
23. “Money, not morality is the principle commerce of civilized
nations.”
24. “Peruvian guano has become so desirable an article to the agricultural interest of the United States that it is the duty of the Government to
employ all the means properly in its power for the purpose of causing that article to be imported into the country at a reasonable price. Nothing will
be omitted on my part toward accomplishing this desirable end.”
25. “I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether
church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead.”
26. “I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a
President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.”
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Did You Know?
Grover Cleveland is the only President to have served two non-consecutive terms.
27. “It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often
groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”
28. “Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an
escape from poverty.”
29. “National honor is the national property of the highest value.”
30. “Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of
industry and the savings of frugality .”
31. “He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the
nation.”
32. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of
duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.”
33. “When you get an education, that is something that nobody can take from you – money is only temporary – but what
you have in your head, if you have the right kind of head, stays with you.”
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Did You Know?
The Eisenhower dollar was minted from 1971 until 1978. Dwight Eisenhower once had to schedule a date with his future wife Mamie a month in advance.
34. “I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.”
35. “I believe that all the measures of the government are directed to
the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
36. “The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be
measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
37. “I do not prize the word “cheap.” It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for
cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.”
38. “The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. ”
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