Independence Day and Small Businesses

What Calvin Coolidge Really Said:
Calvin Coolidge, the only U.S. president born on July 4, is famously quoted as saying, “The business of America is business.  Here is what President Coolidge really said, in a speech called “The Press Under a Free Government” in 1925:
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. Of course the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.“
In the last paragraph of the speech Coolidge said:
We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want very much more. …read more