President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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.
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
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.
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