America the Beautiful Quotes

“The insidious nature of socialism, cloaked in a façade of compassion, makes it very dangerous to an uneducated and trusting populace. And as socialism creates dependency, it is well on its way to eliminating freedom of choice and incentives for high productivity and innovation.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“If we apply logic to solving our problems and add the godly principles of loving our fellow man, caring about our neighbors, and developing our God-given talents to the utmost so we become valuable to those around us — allowing these values and principles to govern our lives — then not only will we remain a pinnacle nation, we will truly be “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Today we produce only 60,000 to 70,000 engineers per year, 40 percent of whom are foreigners, while China produces over 400,000 engineers per year. With this kind of technological discrepancy, we will be left far behind in the not too distant future unless we begin to address our educational shortcomings with more than political rhetoric.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten their sources of revenue.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Benjamin Franklin, however, wrote: To relieve the misfortunes of our fellow creatures is concurring with the Deity; it is godlike; but, if we provide encouragement for laziness, and supports for folly, may we not be found fighting against the order of God and nature, which perhaps has appointed want and misery as the proper punishments for, and cautions against, as well as necessary consequences of, idleness and extravagance? Whenever we attempt to amend the scheme of Providence, and to interfere with the government of the world, we had need be very circumspect, lest we do more harm than good.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Our problems are not ours alone — we share them with future generations — and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Until the antireligion zealots learn the meaning of the word tolerance, we will continue to experience unnecessary strife.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“This power became addicting to many elected officials who, instead of going to Washington, DC, for a brief time to represent their constituency, wanted to hold their positions for extended periods of time — even for life. This growing power and the progressive intrusion of government into the lives of the people was so insidious that it went largely undetected.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“I am fond of saying that if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives — it ceases to be a representative government and instead has transformed into something else. One”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“When the party becomes more important than principle, we are in dire straits,”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“the question is not whether a nation makes mistakes; the question is whether a nation learns from its mistakes, builds on that knowledge it gains over time, and grows in wisdom. Those nations who learn from their mistakes will become wise, while those who repeat the same mistakes over and over again, expecting a different result, are foolish.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“To saddle the next generation with unimaginable debt is not only callous, it is morally reprehensible”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“one can only take care of everyone until there’s no more money, at which time one can take care of no one”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“In the not too distant past, public service jobs in the United States usually paid less than private-sector jobs and didn’t have as many benefits. It was indeed sacrificial public service. Today, government jobs pay on average 20 percent more than private-sector jobs of the same type and have mind-boggling benefits — all at the taxpayers’ expense. Furthermore, if you have ever tried to deal with a government bureaucracy, you probably know how difficult it is to find caring and competent people. For many people, a government job is a ticket to an easy life.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“I have also frequently heard people question the faith of Thomas Jefferson. However, in his 1781 notes on the state of Virginia, he wrote, “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives — it ceases to be a representative government and instead has transformed into something else.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Capitalism is a system that works extremely well for someone who is highly motivated and very energetic, but it is not a great system for someone who is not interested in working hard or for someone who feels no need to contribute to the economic well-being of their community.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“As it stands today we have too many lawyers in government — many of whom are very smart and decent people — but they are not immune from acting like lawyers. Consequently, we have far too much regulatory legislation. Also, what do many lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win by hook or by crook; it doesn’t matter how you fight as long as you win. Imagine a roomful of Democratic and Republican lawyers, each with one overriding goal to win, and this certainly helps one understand the distasteful partisan politics that characterizes Congress today.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude toward the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf. And it is my earnest prayer that we may so conduct ourselves as to merit a continuance of those blessings with which we have hitherto been favored.”17”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”14”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“If two people believe the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“in order to be fair, we must have a firm grasp of who we are as a people and what is important to us. If we don’t, the forces of political correctness will gradually blur the lines between tolerance and acceptance, to the point that we will soon have no idea who we are or what we stand for. This process has already begun in our nation, and we must recognize it in order to stop it in its tracks.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Everyone knows that there are thirteen stripes to represent the original thirteen colonies and fifty stars, each representing one of the fifty states. But what you may not know is that red represents hardness and valor. White represents purity and innocence. And blue represents perseverance, vigilance, and justice.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“The real question is, will we as Americans, accustomed to freedom, continue to sheepishly submit to the purveyors of political correctness without recognizing its erosive effects on our freedom?”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”
― Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great