“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”
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Ben Carson
“While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.”
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Ben Carson
“I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations”
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Ben Carson
“The fact that the Republican Party in particular often seems to stand for principle, only to cave in to pressure at the last minute, has turned off a huge number of voters.”
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Ben Carson
“All citizens need to arm themselves with a basic knowledge of American history and stay abreast of current events, analyzing them with respect to history. Knowledge is power and at a time when the people are becoming increasingly impotent while the government grows larger and more powerful, it is vital that we arm ourselves with knowledge.”
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Ben Carson
“We want to make decisions based on facts. Many people do not. They make their decisions based on what their momma says or what their daddy says or what their political party says — without engaging their brains.”
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Ben Carson
“Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”
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Ben Carson
“They decreed that the American government always be controlled by the will of the people, not the people by the will of the government.”
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Ben Carson
“When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.”
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Ben Carson
“Worst of all, we seem to have lost our ability to discuss important issues respectfully and courteously and cannot come together enough to begin to solve our problems.”
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Ben Carson
“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”
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Ben Carson
“listening intently, as their minister told an exciting true story”
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Ben Carson
“heredity, but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area”
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Ben Carson
“As individuals, we can educate ourselves and our children, cultivate the art of compromise, pray for wisdom, and hold our representatives accountable. Each of us can positively affect our nation just by making ourselves (and those in our spheres of influence ) aware of the fact that we are being used as pawns by those who try to tell us what we should think as opposed to using our own common sense.”
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Ben Carson
