Prosperous Country Quotes

#1. Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Luis Fortuno

#2. I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

Philip Yancey

#3. It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.

Kevin Nealon

#4. I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.

Philip Yancey

#5. My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

Chelsea Clinton

#6. Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

Ted Cruz

#7. I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

Lee R. Raymond

#8. Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits.

Amity Shlaes

#9. a prosperous country with higher wage rates per unit of time may have lower labor costs per unit of output than a Third World country where workers are not paid nearly as much.

Anonymous

#10. It seems odd that a story about a gift-the possibility of a new life in a new and prosperous country-begins with a thief, but in some ways this one does.

Kimball Taylor

#11. Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

Christine Lagarde

#12. The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

Harry Browne

#13. Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

Michael Parenti

#14. Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Martin Van Buren

#15. The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

Herbert Hoover

#16. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

Andrew Jackson

#17. On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.

Milton Friedman

#18. At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

James Monroe

#19. My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

Park Geun-hye

#20. The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

Martin Van Buren

#21. The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

Fareed Zakaria

#22. It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people ...

Victoria Woodhull

#23. Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#24. A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring America's promise as a land of opportunity.

Martha Roby

#26. In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#27. Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#28. At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

Hu Jintao

#29. Countries are stronger and more prosperous when the voices and opinions of all their citizens can be heard.

Michelle Obama

#30. We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#31. I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.

Jim Gerlach

#32. Children are the future of a nation. If the children are intelligent, the country will be prosperous.

Thai proverb

Elaine Russell

#33. The fault of this country is the want of measure in political life. Flat acquiescence in illegality, followed by sanguinary reaction - that, senores, is not the way to a stable and prosperous future.

Joseph Conrad

#34. Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

Andrew Jackson

#35. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#36. A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

Robert Dallek