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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future QUOTES

1 " While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

2 " There is no freedom without bravery. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

3 " When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened? "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

4 " Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

5 " When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

6 " The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

7 " When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

8 " If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

9 " If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

10 " If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

11 " Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

12 " Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

13 " Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our second president, John Adams, who said of our thoroughly researched and developed governing document, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

14 " I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened… Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, "Do you have a brain?" And if the answer was yes, then she said, "Then you could have thought your way out of it. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

15 " Many well-meaning Americans have bought into the PC speech code, thinking that by being extra careful not to offend anyone we will achieve unity. What they fail to realize is that this is a false unity that prevents us from talking about important issues and is a Far Left strategy to paralyze us while they change our nation. People have been led to become so sensitive that fault can be found in almost anything anyone says because somewhere, somehow, someone will be offended by it. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

16 " Because if you don’t accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

17 " The best way to respond to distracting personal attacks is to practice bringing the conversation back to the issue at hand. Never fall into the trap of engaging in personal attacks while letting the topic of conversation slip into the background. Doing so allows your opponent to escape the need to explain her position. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

18 " Many well-meaning Americans have bought into the PC speech code, thinking that by being extra careful not to offend anyone we will achieve unity. What they fail to realize is that this is a false unity that prevents us from talking about important issues and is a Far Left strategy to paralyze us while they change our nation. People have been led to become so sensitive that fault can be found in almost anything anyone says because somewhere, somehow, someone will be offended by it. To stop this, Americans need to recognize what is happening, speak up courageously, avoid fearful or angry responses, and ignore the barking and snarling as we put political correctness to bed forever. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

19 " I believe the only thing that will correct our downward trajectory is the rekindling of the enthusiasm for individual freedom and the reestablishment of the U.S. Constitution as the dominant document of governance. Unless the majority of Americans awaken from their complacency and recognize the threat to their fundamental individual liberties imposed by continued expansion of the federal government, nothing will save us from the fate of all pinnacle nations that have preceded us, those that tolerated political and moral corruption while ignoring fiscal irresponsibility. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

20 " Over the course of time many Americans have forgotten that “we the people” are actually at the top of the food chain as far as authority is concerned in this nation. The Republicans don’t run our nation. The Democrats don’t run our nation. We do. However, by dividing and engaging in political squabbles, we have allowed the government to grow so large and powerful that it has now become the boss, progressively taking charge of all of our lives. "

― Ben Carson , One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future