“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
“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.”
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Ben Carson
“Margaret Mead, who said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
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Ben Carson
“Laws and regulations should be designed to address normal situations, while providing special mechanisms for the creation of exceptions in abnormal situations.”
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Ben Carson
“of Jesus Christ and my relationship to Him and remember that the One who created the universe can do anything. I also have evidence—my own experience—that God can do anything, because He changed me. From age 14, I began to focus on the future. My mother’s lessons—and those of several of my teachers—were at last paying off.”
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Ben Carson
“Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.”
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Ben Carson
“The babies had been successfully anesthetized after only a few hours, a complex procedure because of their shared blood vessels.”
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Ben Carson
“God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?”
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Ben Carson
“unity is possible among the people of our nation with the right kind of leadership. But we the people must for ourselves determine that we will be indivisible regardless of the leadership, and we must exercise our ability to identify the divisive forces and vote them out of office.”
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Ben Carson
“It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
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Ben Carson
“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city” (RSV).”
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Ben Carson
“Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright”
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Ben Carson
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After an era of darkness, new races build others; but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. — Clarence Day”
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Ben Carson
“In recent decades we have seen significant deviation regarding the equal application of the laws, but again, it is not too late to rectify the situation if we the people of the United States take enough interest in our political situation to exercise our right as voters and put people in office who will uphold our Constitution.”
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Ben Carson
“Thomas Jefferson: “A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
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Ben Carson
