"Prosperity is something the businessmen created for..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for
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“An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.”
“A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.”
“Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.”
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“If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.”
“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.”
“Much effort, much prosperity.”
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“My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.”
“The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.”
“Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.”