BUSINESS

“Must we always look for the political opinions of our businessmen precisely where they suppose their immediate pecuniary advantage is found?”

—GROVER CLEVELAND

“I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.”

—WOODROW WILSON

“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

—WOODROW WILSON

“To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesman-ship of the day.”

—THEODORE ROOSEVELT

“Civilization and profits go hand in hand.”

—CALVIN COOLIDGE

“The chief business of the American people is business.”

—CALVIN COOLIDGE

“American business is not a monster, but an expression of [the] God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.”

—WARREN G. HARDING

“My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.”

—JOHN F. KENNEDY

“I understand small business growth. I was one.”

—GEORGE W. BUSH