Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
~By James K. Polk ~
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
~By Nick Lampson ~
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
~By John Churton Collins ~
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
~By Paul Getty ~
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
~By George Voinovich ~
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
~By Li Peng ~
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~By Aristotle ~
This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
~By Horace ~
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
~By Oliver Tambo ~
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
~By Omar Bongo ~
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
~By Ann Coulter ~
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~By Aeschylus ~
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
~By James Allen ~
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
~By Alan Gregg ~
That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Prosperity makes few friends.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
~By Caroline Kennedy ~
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.
~By Gordon Brown ~
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
~By Michael Porter ~
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
~By Francis Bacon ~
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
~By David Hare ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.
~By Benny Hinn ~
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.
~By Jim Walsh ~
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
~By John Moody ~
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
~By David Ricardo ~
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
~By William Howard Taft ~
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
~By Elvis Presley ~
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
~By Mary Douglas ~
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
~By Plutarch ~
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
~By Paul Getty ~
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
~By James Madison ~
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
~By Don Marquis ~
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
~By Horst Koehler ~
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
~By Aeschylus ~
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
~By Jennifer M. Granholm ~
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
~By Isabel Allende ~
One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
~By Mark Twain ~
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
~By John Shadegg ~
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
~By W. C. Fields ~
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
~By Robert Toombs ~
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
~By Heraclitus ~
We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
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.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Much effort, much prosperity.
~By Euripides ~
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
~By Herbert Croly ~
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
~By George Washington ~
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
~By Scott Cook ~
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
~By Rosalind Russell ~
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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