#prosperity

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity. ↗

— Thomas H. Kean

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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

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Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

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You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

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Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. ↗

— George Ball

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