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“We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.”

“Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.”

Levels Prosperity Taxation

Author:John Pugsley

“I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.”

People Men Country Government Action America Justice Common Responsibility Creative Land Security Design Areas Originals Prosperity Socialism Welfare Destructive Productive Departed

Author:Leonard Read

“When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery, which is one of the many reasons Marxism and socialism have failed everywhere they've tried.”

Reason Government Used Misery Prosperity Spread Income Socialism Boards Guarantees Marxism

Author:David Limbaugh

“The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.”

Sometimes States Causes Prosperity Ridiculous Excess Vicious All State

Book:The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

“If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.”

Ifs Want Needs Facts Source Politician Entrepreneur Prosperity Meddling

Book:Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America

Source: Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America

“There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.”

Should Values Security Europe Prosperity Renaissance

Author:John F. Kerry

“The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.”

Nations Mathematics Prosperity

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.”

Facts Stories Suffering Hero Prosperity Accidents Tales Midst Calamity Conducting Instantaneous

Book:Shakespearean Tragedy

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.”

Greater Errors Prosperity

Author:Leonard Read

“The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.”

Source: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.”

People Men Way Enjoy Greater Duty Praise Fellows Prosperity Deeds Thanks Enjoyed Fellow Man Giver Solemn Heartfelt

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.”

Poverty Democracy Slavery Prosperity Despots

Author:Democritus

“You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.”

People Ifs Looks Growth Answers Known Taken Records Four Cutting Taxes Jokes Silent Prosperity Doing Nothing Heed

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.”

Problem Given Process Interest Findings Solutions Responsible Blind Endure Prosperity Awe Guts Feds Engagement Obedient Knots Disappearance Quickening

Author:Deane Juhan

“Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!”

World Enough Together Liberty Prosperity Dust Sunshine Persecution Contention Happy Day

Book:The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised

Source: The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised

“Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.”

People Dream Turns Economy Sadness Building Materials Broken Tasks Prosperity Broken Dreams

Author:Duane Elgin

“Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.”

Knows Building Hatred Unity Prosperity Experiments Privileged Fanaticism Breeding

Author:Dick Cheney

“There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.”

Trying Done Government Jobs Culture Pay Steps Cry Red Pressure Prosperity Britain Stakes Tape Packages Red Tape

Author:George Osborne

“We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.”

World Long Enough Problem Term Technology Innovation Prosperity Solve Entrepreneurship Long Term Changing The World

Author:Naveen Jain

“It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our prosperity is linked inextricably to the maintenance of a strong world economy, an open international trading system, and stable global financial markets.”

World Said Today Used Strong Economy Cold Opposites Financial International Caught Prosperity Used To Be Stable Linked Trading Maintenance Financial Markets World Economy

Author:Lawrence Summers

“When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.”

Spirit Church Land Prosperity Controversy Revival

Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion

“Prosperity knits a man to the world.”

Men World Prosperity Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality?”

World Way Facts Reality America Faces Hate Fighting Difficult This World Population Prosperity Significant Portions Unwilling Fighting For Freedom

Author:Sean Hannity

“I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.”

Objects Prosperity

Author:Mark Twain

“Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom.”

Believe Humans Economic Essentials Connections Prosperity Human Freedom Economic Freedom

Author:Edwin Feulner

“Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all that seems to happen regardless of the paradigm and the high thoughts of philosophy. It has always happened. It is precisely because it has always happened that we go on wrestling with these issues in the hope that it can happen more often and for more people.”

People World Philosophy Seems Happens Joy Courses Issues Happened Goes On Passionate Prosperity Wrestling Tenderness Paradigm Passionate Love

Author:Sara Maitland

“It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.”

People Environment Demand Ethics Opposites Prosperity Superstitions Work Ethic Protestants Ontario Protestant Work Ethic

Author:Ezra Levant

“One of the things I've learned as I've studied the principles in God's Word is this, that God wants us to prosper. But, the way He determines the level of our prosperity is based on how much we can let go of and still smile. So, if you can't release that money and still smile, then you can't be trusted with any more than you have right now. ... If you can prove to God that you don't love money God doesn't care how much you have.”

Ifs Way Want Stills Care Levels Principles Right Now Prove Letting Go Determine Prosperity Release I've Learned Trusted Want U Love Of Money Things I've Learned

Author:Mark Gorman

“God's will concerning financial prosperity and abundance is clearly revealed in the Scriptures.”

Financial Prosperity Scripture Gods Will Abundance Financial Prosperity

Book:God's Will is Prosperity

Source: God's Will is Prosperity

“Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release God's law of prosperity. When you give in to your fear and eat your seed, or hide it, you release God's law of poverty.”

Giving Law Choices Poverty Exercise Prosperity Seeds Release

Author:John Avanzini

“Why do you need to know that? Because until you know that Jesus was prosperous, you won't be either. You may have His kindness, you may have His gentleness, you may have all His other attributes, but you'll never have His prosperity.”

Knows Needs May Jesus Kindness Prosperity Attributes Gentleness Prosperous

Author:John Avanzini

“He won healing, He won deliverance, He won financial prosperity, mental prosperity, physical prosperity, family prosperity. He said He would meet my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and I am walking around and saying, "Yes, my needs are met according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Glory to God, I am coveting to the "need meter"; I am coveting to the I AM; Hallelujah! And I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway; when I read in the Bible where He says "I AM" I just smile and say "Yes, I AM too!"”

Needs Said Jesus Christ Healing Walking Mets Glory Financial Prosperity Riches Upset Glory Of God Deliverance Meter Saying Yes Just Smile Hallelujah Coveting Financial Prosperity

Author:Kenneth Copeland

“I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it - so does God. Think you need it - God knows it. ... The principles of Jesus Christ create your prosperity.”

Thinking Knows Needs Doe Said Jesus Christ Principles Percent Jesus Christ Twenties Prosperity God Knows

Author:Mike Murdock

“I am asking the Congress, which represents the people, to declare a war on ISIS so that we can begin the process of excising that cancer and begin the healing process, and bring peace, prosperity, and safety back to America.”

People War America Process Healing Asking Safety Congress Cancer Prosperity Isis Healing Process

Author:Benjamin Carson

“When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market.”

Ifs Way Want Reason Action Values Water Nice Share Function Increase Victim Profit Prosperity Objectives Executives Illegal Being Nice Behalf Shareholders Katrina

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.”

Way Growth Achieve Prosperity Productivity

Author:Mario Draghi

“The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.”

Country Prayer Liberty Objects Prosperity Supreme Our Country Fervent Fervent Prayer

Book:James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.”

Men World Want Feels Home Earth Growing Findings Importance Pressure Prosperity Circles Reputation Being Real Acquaintance Absorbing

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“Hear from those who have gone before you.”

Gone Prosperity

Author:Mike Dunlap

“Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.”

Heart Kind May Left Natural Known Economy Economic My Heart Prosperity Make Sense Centre Economic Systems Market Economy

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.”

People Self Hands Individual Progress Talent Produce Dignity Prosperity Communism Elites Manipulate Distinctive

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?”

Should Long Government Care Turns Three Ten Prosperity Income Socialism Inequality Discussion Spite Commandments Petty Ten Commandments Covetousness Income Inequality Thievery

Author:Ben Shapiro

“Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.”

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.”

May Careers Ideals Labor Foundation Calm Currents Prosperity Confusion Recognition Productive Confounding

Book:Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

Source: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

“When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.”

Men Want Universe Asks Quality Married Prosperity

Author:Barbara Rose

“Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.”

“Obamacare is the nation's biggest job killer and stands in the way of our country's economic growth and prosperity. It should be defunded and repealed. President Obama should hear the pleas from the untold number of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare plans, and Congress should act immediately to stop Obamacare from inflicting any more damage on the country on our hard-working citizens.”

“Our government's providing record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs, and improve the quality of life of Canadians. Our government is committed to creating the conditions that will allow entrepreneurship to thrive in this country. The collaboration between colleges and local industrial partners generates new products and ideas, creating long-term prosperity for the benefit of all Canadians.”