After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world... The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world... The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction." in the context of "Calvin Coolidge, speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (17 January 1925), Washington." to mean that wisdom is timeless.