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By Calvin Coolidge
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.
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- Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., January 17, 1925
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Coolidge's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 1925 (published as "The Press Under a Free Government"). He was talking about whether a press close to business can still be trusted. It is often shortened to "the business of America is business," which is not what he said.