#prosperity

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#prosperity #public #raids #restored #treasury

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#adversity #i #i can #more #people

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#american way #be patient #harder #into #little

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#die #make #prosperity #sure #trick

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. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#america #american #american dream #approach #build

The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that. ↗

— Artur Davis

#country #democratic #democratic party #economic #economic future

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

#conceals #genius #prosperity #reveals

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long