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  • Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.†   (source)
  • They would make new lives for themselves-peaceful, solitary lives-and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.†   (source)
  • [We] are devoutly to acknowledge that kind Providence ...hath restored our city to its useful state of health and prosperity†   (source)
  • Every afternoon, whatever the weather, he stands in a field bawling state-sown dicta: "Prosperity depends on ferocity.†   (source)
  • Most magically, tile produced prosperity—more bushels per acre of a better crop, year after year, wet or dry.†   (source)
  • The Depression had taken its toll here, but she could see the signs of prosperity beginning to work their way back.†   (source)
  • I have been lenient in the past, allowing our Red brothers a good life full of prosperity, of dignity.†   (source)
  • Okonkwo's prosperity was visible in his household.†   (source)
  • But in the U.S., it wasn't just the prosperity—because New Orleans was not uniformly prosperous, to be sure—there was a sense that everything could be replaced, and on a whim.†   (source)
  • They're breaking the sign at the Great Prosperity Market!†   (source)
  • The Fleece brought prosperity to the land.†   (source)
  • But this time our faraway vantage was desirable, because we got to take in the full scope of the Event: the impatient crowd, leaning collectively from one foot to another; the mayor atop a red-white-and-blue dais; the booming words—pride, growth, prosperity, success—rolling over us, soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.†   (source)
  • Peace and prosperity would flourish, but more wondrous yet, the Riders would be brought back to gently govern over Galbatorix's fiefdoms.†   (source)
  • Part of the Second Asian Co-prosperity Sphere after the Third Sino-Japanese War.†   (source)
  • He'd traveled there the winter before, and no experience of his life had ever made such an impression on him; he said he felt he understood for the first time the true meaning of prosperity.†   (source)
  • A sea of Jewish misery washed around the small islands of relative prosperity represented by the Jewish intelligentsia and the luxurious life of the speculators.†   (source)
  • Everywhere he looked he saw evidence of the city's prosperity.†   (source)
  • You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin, wearing some thread of the stolen goods: cotton or diamonds, freedom at the very least, prosperity.†   (source)
  • The aim is that you use this money to build a life of productivity, prosperity, and philanthropy.†   (source)
  • He would restore the old Kingdom of David and the people would have a future of prosperity.†   (source)
  • Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent.†   (source)
  • My father had a stable job in a bank, something I realize now that he was smug about — he saw his prosperity as a reward for talent and hard work, rather than acknowledging the luck involved.†   (source)
  • She made them in the shape of fish and peaches, representing peace and prosperity, and gold bars representing wealth.†   (source)
  • I like to rap about sweetened romance My fond ambition is of your pants So here is of special reinarkable way Of this fellow raps named Sushi IC The Nipponese talking phenomenon Like samurai sword his sharpened tongue Who raps the East Asia and the Pacific Prosperity Sphere, to be specific It's a typical loose slope of dirt and stones that looks like it would wash away in the first rainfall.†   (source)
  • They saw the land gradually restored to prosperity.†   (source)
  • They thought their prosperity came from their own sheer brilliance.†   (source)
  • It escaped no-one's notice that in Hedestad alone more than 3,000 of the town's 21,000 inhabitants were employed by the Vanger Corporation or were otherwise dependent on the prosperity of the company.†   (source)
  • Happiness was accompanied by prosperity.†   (source)
  • The people have such hopes the Atreides will bring peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Despite his prosperity, Jo-Jo could not drive and did not own a car.†   (source)
  • The Captain, a big, expansive man who stood nearly six and a half feet tall, saw Coalwood as a laboratory for his ideas, a place where the company could bring peace, prosperity, and tranquillity to its citizens.†   (source)
  • The new prosperity enabled Carl and Margaret to buy a house five blocks away from their restaurant.†   (source)
  • Reston was one of the first planned suburbs in America, a visible symbol of the American belief in rational design and suburban prosperity, a community of gently curved streets, making arcs through landscaped neighborhoods, where disorder and chaos were given no sign of acknowledgment and no places to hide.†   (source)
  • All this brought the hillside more prosperity and influence, and so a road was built to the village, going right by the new Dai home.†   (source)
  • They call it the prosperity dance.†   (source)
  • The invaders in their officious and sensible way had brought prosperity to the city, and it had never stopped growing larger than its boundaries.†   (source)
  • Growth and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Wheat, Milo seed, certified grass seed-these were the crops the farm's prosperity depended upon.†   (source)
  • Even I knew enough to understand what Buddha meant when he said, "Always walk the road of happiness to prosperity" They seemed miserable and loveless.†   (source)
  • Those prosperity-bound defectors just don't want to remember their debt to faith, he tells himself.†   (source)
  • They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat....we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity.†   (source)
  • He oversaw the gang's expansion and ushered in a new era of prosperity and relative peace.†   (source)
  • Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is the highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?†   (source)
  • Their prosperity and growing numbers had Max considering expansion.†   (source)
  • His forefathers were poor immigrants from Ireland who quickly took advantage of America's freedoms to achieve prosperity.†   (source)
  • As for the Hobbits of the Shire, with whom these tales are concerned, in the days of their peace and prosperity they were a merry folk.†   (source)
  • He, too, was evidently affected by the peculiar smell of prosperity, for he paused as though in uncertainty.†   (source)
  • He had gone to London at the end of his apprenticeship, for the return and restoration of King Charles II had created prosperity among all manner of trades.†   (source)
  • He thanked me with tears flowing from his eyes and promised me-us-a life of joy and prosperity, and that as a family—"a family!" he roared-we should never know pain, loss or sadness.†   (source)
  • The nation "created by the Gods" initiated "co-prosperity" by raining terror down on Manchuria and China.†   (source)
  • From this height, nurturing life and prosperity in each isolated settlement seemed simply a matter of drawing straight lines to divert water.†   (source)
  • Warmer climate, better race relations, and rising prosperity in the region are magnets, but so is a sense of coming "home," and of a stronger black social solidarity.†   (source)
  • He opened the door and stood smiling, a picture of prosperity and good will.†   (source)
  • But ain't no farmer in Georgic seen thet prosperity Mr. Henry W. New-South Grady used to write about in them Atlanta newspapers.†   (source)
  • Farther south, signs of prosperity began to reappear.†   (source)
  • He didn't have any of Jackson's public charm or private temper, mannerisms that seemed to singlehandedly carry the country through eight years of prosperity.†   (source)
  • They will cough their lungs out deep in the bowels of the white man's mines, destroying their health, never seeing the sun, so that the white man can live a life of unequaled prosperity.†   (source)
  • The king would either giver her to a worthy knight, or marry her off to a neighboring prince so he could have more land with peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • It is a time when the outcome will either send the territory toward peace and prosperity, or plunge its people into chaos and destruction.†   (source)
  • Prosperity, in the form of a fat salary from Howard, had found Tom Smith.†   (source)
  • Not the false prosperity of previous years, but a prosperity that those with her on these hot, still mornings can share.†   (source)
  • Deo believed that most of Kagame's efforts were aimed at preventing another slaughter and at promoting prosperity — to Deo's mind, the only way of making the current, fragile peace endure.†   (source)
  • My objective was social progress, universal prosperity, human brotherhood and love.†   (source)
  • For one of the poets has said, 'Application to business is the root of prosperity, but those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly towards the rock of indigence'.†   (source)
  • Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys.†   (source)
  • Everyone wishes you longevity and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Beorg's gamble had been that the tribes could be united by a common enemy and the promise of continued prosperity.†   (source)
  • He passed down the hall of the VA hospital that was filled with old, sick, and dying soldiers who had given their all so that the rest of the country could live in peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Until recently, everyone agreed that America should remain united and that our prosperity depends on being one nation.†   (source)
  • We thank You for bringing the blessings of peace and prosperity to this land.†   (source)
  • ON ANY SATURDAY MORNING in the Village of Bedley Run, one can see everywhere the prosperity and spirit and subtle industry of its citizens.†   (source)
  • Slavery has deadened all enterprise and prosperity.†   (source)
  • She had been suffering from one of her periodic attacks of ague, and as soon as she had got rid of it she came, waddling, for she had put on a lot of fat when prosperity had returned to the land.†   (source)
  • It is said that Balzac on his deathbed inquired anxiously after the health and prosperity of characters be had created.†   (source)
  • " And at the bottom of the page was scrawled, "Dear Adam: Forget not thy servants in the days of thy prosperity.†   (source)
  • But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history.†   (source)
  • It was the recent war which had brought about this transition from mere prosperity to luxury, to the refurbished brownstone on Pierrepont Street and the Bonnard and the Degas (and a Pissarro landscape I was to see soon, a view of a lost country lane in the nineteenth-century wilds outside of Paris so meltingly serene and lovely that it brought a lump to my throat).†   (source)
  • TV was new, at this time, and the Muntz TV, with its miraculous single knob, was destined to make that scruffy street a place of prosperity.†   (source)
  • Can you deny that the Overlords have brought security, peace and prosperity to the world?†   (source)
  • The prosperity of its merchants and the fabulous fertility of its soil were proverbial.†   (source)
  • Center, with disease practically conquered, great prosperity, and lodestone of a myriad peoples, had grown too crowded, especially when Long-Life sent skyward the average age of death.†   (source)
  • Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues, issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression.†   (source)
  • In my office today, for example, was a delegation representing New England textile mills, an industry essential to our prosperity.†   (source)
  • I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.†   (source)
  • But there seemed small need for watching in the days of our prosperity, and the guards were made over comfortable, perhaps — otherwise we might have had longer warnings of the coming of the dragon, and things might have been different.   (source)
    prosperity = state of doing well
  • "The new Master is of wiser kind," said Balin, "and very popular, for, of course, he gets most of the credit for the present prosperity."   (source)
  • ...during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week.   (source)
    prosperity = a state of doing well -- especially economically
  • He destroyed the Riders and the greatest peace and prosperity we ever had.†   (source)
  • Together we are going to make a place for justice and peace, prosperity and grandeur.†   (source)
  • At least for a short time, there was prosperity here, and enough to go around.†   (source)
  • A platter of feta cheese and herbs and flat bread represented happiness and prosperity.†   (source)
  • And the name Great Prosperity is very bad.†   (source)
  • Improved, and working toward a world in which people will live in wealth, comfort, and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Macondo was swamped in a miraculous prosperity.†   (source)
  • They had never expected to see such prosperity.†   (source)
  • Only he would lead us to greater prosperity and happiness.†   (source)
  • Beneath her is a large plaque that reads KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO PROSPERITY.†   (source)
  • Doesn't that mean to make a lot of money, just like Great Prosperity?†   (source)
  • Great prosperity means to make a fortune, and making a fortune is what bad people do.†   (source)
  • Prosperity was clearly alive and well at the foot of this Virginia mountain.†   (source)
  • Even from shore its prosperity was apparent.†   (source)
  • He shall bring peace and prosperity to the world.†   (source)
  • He wanted peace and prosperity, not power!†   (source)
  • To ensure this prosperity, I was to feed monkeys on my birthday.†   (source)
  • And every harvest, Celia cut the sugar that El Líder promised would bring prosperity.†   (source)
  • If we remain united, we can counteract policies that hurt our prosperity.†   (source)
  • Saima's new prosperity has also transformed the family's educational prospects.†   (source)
  • The war over, a fake prosperity was still around.†   (source)
  • How few aim at the good of the whole, without aiming too much at the prosperity of parts!†   (source)
  • You can increase your prosperity by marrying into the right families.†   (source)
  • Prosperity only seems to come in halves up here.†   (source)
  • The poster proclaimed the peaceful intentions of "co-prosperity."†   (source)
  • Lead us to a peaceful, scientific, industrial age and to prosperity.†   (source)
  • And if the prophecy is correct, you will help the Amazon nation achieve prosperity.†   (source)
  • Dutch prosperity depended in large measure on British support for Dutch trade on the high seas.†   (source)
  • Let us break the fatal charm that has seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity.†   (source)
  • These mountains just got what they need to keep that prosperity going and their pockets filled.†   (source)
  • Prohibiting State bills of credit [paper money] is just and promotes public prosperity.†   (source)
  • Yes, prosperity is here in fine abundance and here it will stay," said the mayor.†   (source)
  • Because that's where the real prosperity is, folks.†   (source)
  • Each delegate was committed to public liberty and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Good jobs, bring prosperity back to you all.†   (source)
  • The prosperity of America depends on its Union.†   (source)
  • Staying united will promote American prosperity and wealth.†   (source)
  • And third, commerce is very important to both public prosperity and revenue to government.†   (source)
  • And is the Constitution necessary for public safety and prosperity?†   (source)
  • Our present burst of prosperity depends on it.†   (source)
  • The human race continued to bask in the long, cloudless summei afternoon of peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • The invaders had brought peace and prosperity to Earth-but who knew what the cost might be?†   (source)
  • Although the streets were empty and accordion gates stretched in front of store-fronts Papi recognized the prosperity in the buildings and in the tall operative lampposts.†   (source)
  • "Especially prosperity," Bewt said.†   (source)
  • He found a young good-looking man, almost delicate, who conveyed an air of confidence and prosperity.†   (source)
  • When it gets down to it-talking trade balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what?†   (source)
  • The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world's details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me.†   (source)
  • It was significant, said Mr. Griffen, that all parties in the British House of Commons cheered the news, and he hoped that all parties in Canada would also cheer, as this accord would put paid to the Depression and would usher in a new "golden era" of peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • It was a delirious prosperity that even made him laugh, and he could not help doing crazy things to release his good humor.†   (source)
  • We expected to be parted for no more than six or eight weeks, while Anatole worked with the Lumumbists to reassemble their fallen leader's plan for peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Aureliano bore Amaranta Ursula's spite patiently and made an effort to show her that he could be as good a husband in adversity as in prosperity, and the daily needs that besieged them when Gaston's last money ran out created a bond of solidarity between them that was not as dazzling and heady as passion, but that let them make love as much and be as happy as during their uproarious and salacious days.†   (source)
  • I just think that comfort and prosperity are not a priority for Abnegation, and maybe they would be if the other factions were involved in our decision making.†   (source)
  • The very first bowl of dumplings to be served was lucky food, for the gods of the kitchen, of harvest, prosperity, long life and happiness.†   (source)
  • The contrast with the bareness of China was so amazing that I started to wonder once again about America's prosperity and the stories we'd been told.†   (source)
  • Prosperity.†   (source)
  • The Great Prosperity Market was on Nanjing Road, Shanghai's busiest shopping street, only two blocks from our alley.†   (source)
  • A big crowd had gathered outside the Great Prosperity Market, one of the most successful food stores in the city.†   (source)
  • I'd guessed that the Chinese government would probably have lied to us about England too, but I was still overawed by its wealth and prosperity.†   (source)
  • It was still impressive, although the large golden characters GREAT PROSPERITY MARKET had lost their usual shine and looked dull and lifeless on the red background.†   (source)
  • Even though there were signs of prosperity everywhere and the progress I was witnessing far exceeded my expectations, still, the massive number of bicycles, the polluted air and the millions of pedestrians were all so familiar to me.†   (source)
  • Aegon the Conqueror brought fire and blood to Westeros, but afterward he gave them peace, prosperity, and justice.†   (source)
  • Once I have bound every magician in the world to the laws of the land, imagine the peace and prosperity that shall reign.†   (source)
  • It was foretold that the most courageous female warrior would someday master Anion and ride him to victory, ushering in a new era of prosperity for the Amazons.†   (source)
  • Now, my greatest concern is ensuring the peace and prosperity of the empire over which I find myself lord and master.†   (source)
  • "Obviously there are quite a few factors that determine personality, including a person's upbringing and experiences," David continues, "but despite the peace and prosperity that had reigned in this country for nearly a century, it seemed advantageous to our ancestors to reduce the risk of these undesirable qualities showing up in our population by correcting them.†   (source)
  • Nothing in Tom-Carl's face indicated that he might have a rude surprise coming to him: already, prosperity-bred independence had undermined his kingdom until it was foundering; two more elections and it would crumble into thesis material for a sociology major.†   (source)
  • He is sick of what he sees as the gross imbalance between the poverty of the war-torn South and the prosperity of the North.†   (source)
  • Yet so open a door to prosperity, not to say the gratification to one's vanity, that a royal appointment might offer tempted Adams not at all.†   (source)
  • The whole history of this valley in that house—desperately just throwing up enough of a cabin to keep rain off between battling the forest; then a measure of peace to add a room or two for comfort; then some prosperity, and more children, and a need to put a grand two-story face on things, and finally three generations in that house, and building not for pride but just for space, just for rooms to put folks into.†   (source)
  • It is a time when the outcome will either send the territory toward peace and prosperity, or plunge its people into chaos and destruction.†   (source)
  • Here, it's a day for her to be proud, but she can't help staring at them— these smiling, polished people-and overhearing their jaunty melody of generational succession: a child's footsteps following their own, steps on a path that leads to prosperity's table and a saved seat right next to Mom and Dad.†   (source)
  • "This is exactly our Emperor's mandate," I told her, "to develop an Asian prosperity, and an Asian way of life."†   (source)
  • In her eyes he sees a happy future replete with marriage, children, and increased prosperity as he refocuses on his career.†   (source)
  • The Nationalists, led by Dr. Daniel Malan, a former minister of the Dutch Reform Church and a newspaper editor, were a party animated by bitterness—bitterness toward the English, who had treated them as inferiors for decades, and bitterness toward the African, who the Nationalists believed was threatening the prosperity and purity of Afrikaner culture.†   (source)
  • The prosperity and labor peace in Greeley, however, were soon threatened by fundamental changes sweeping through the meatpacking industry — an upheaval that came to be known as "the IBP revolution."†   (source)
  • My father-in-law hired artisans to come to Tongkou and paint additional friezes under our eaves that would tell our neighbors and all those who would visit our village in the future of our prosperity and good luck.†   (source)
  • Orik continued: "While the Riders watched over Alagaesia, we enjoyed the greatest period of prosperity ever recorded in the annals of our realm.†   (source)
  • What do you think the Home Ministry has been promoting all these years, but a Pan-Asian prosperity as captained by our people?†   (source)
  • "The John Galt Plan for Peace, Prosperity and Profit!" cried the announcer, while a shivering picture of the ballroom sprang into view on the screen.†   (source)
  • I believe that I have ensured this prosperity by observing our family ritual and feeding monkeys on my birthday.†   (source)
  • Franklin Borough had grown so confident of its unending prosperity that it built a new municipal building, so opulent in its gleaming white brick that it was nicknamed the Taj Mahal.†   (source)
  • Using the deceptively neutral term "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," Japanese propaganda claimed that Japan's aim was to free its neighbors from white colonial rule.†   (source)
  • If we 4iave faith in the plans of our leaders, why, the plans will work and we'll all have prosperity and ease and plenty.†   (source)
  • When I was born, a blind, Buddhist monk, living alone in the Burmese jungle, predicted that my birth would bring great prosperity to the family.†   (source)
  • The prosperity of it to the country will depend upon Heaven, and very little on anything in my power.†   (source)
  • If they will believe, when so told, that an instrument of death is a tool of prosperity-would they not believe it if they were told that Robert Stadler is a traitor and an enemy of the State?†   (source)
  • Yet he was as pleased by the rise of enterprise and prosperity as anyone, and in moments of discouragement over public life, even contemplated going into the China trade!†   (source)
  • And then I look around at our pretensions and our beliefs—that we are somehow permanent—and I am reminded that it is the quality of leaders, the courage of a people, the ability to solve problems that enables us to continue for one more year, and then one more year, until our children and our grandchildren have had this freedom, this safety, this health, and this prosperity.†   (source)
  • It was there, from his vantage point as altar boy, murmuring the Mass prayers in Latin, that he started to notice certain men who seemed to radiate a success and prosperity that belied the general hard times.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, as a young man, I realized this is all real: The gap between our civilization, our prosperity, our freedoms, and all of those things is the quality of our leaders, the courage of our people, the willingness to face facts, and the willingness to work for solutions—solutions to energy, solutions to the environment, solutions to the economy, solutions to education, and solutions to national security.†   (source)
  • At a time of desperate public need, it's our duty to sacrifice our luxurious tastes and eat our way back to prosperity by adapting ourselves to the simple, wholesome foodstuff on which the peoples of the Orient have so nobly subsisted for centuries.†   (source)
  • The Japanese attitude of superiority is evident in a document from the Imperial Rule Assistance Association entitled "Basic Concepts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere": "Although we use the expression 'Asian Cooperation,' this by no means ignores the fact that Japan was created by the Gods or posits an automatic racial equality."†   (source)
  • Nabby and her family had returned from England, where William Smith's financial ventures appeared to have brought them a measure of welcome prosperity.†   (source)
  • Co-prosperity indeed.†   (source)
  • He was declaring that the new invention was an instrument of social welfare, which guaranteed general prosperity, and that anyone who doubted this self evident fact was an enemy of society, to be treated accordingly.†   (source)
  • The Golden Age was long past by the time Adams arrived—Dutch maritime power and Dutch prestige were acknowledged to be "in decline"—yet business was thriving and visitors were struck by signs of Dutch prosperity on all sides.†   (source)
  • To Jefferson in Paris he wrote, "The new government has my best wishes and most fervent prayers for its success and prosperity; but whether I shall have anything more to do with it, besides praying for it, depends on the future suffrage of freemen."†   (source)
  • No, but you do hear them telling the whip-beaten wretches that starvation is prosperity, that slavery is freedom, that torture chambers are brother-love and that if the wretches don't understand it, then it's their own fault that they suffer, and it's the mangled corpses in the jail cellars who're to blame for all their troubles, not the benevolent leaders!†   (source)
  • A tone of absolute clarity and elevated thought was established in the opening lines, in a Preamble, a new feature in constitutions, affirming the old ideal of the common good founded on a social compact: The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquility, their natural rights and the blessings of life; and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, happiness, and prosperity.†   (source)
  • For those of you who might ask questions, your code provides a consolation prize and booby-trap: it is for your own happiness, it says, that you must serve the happiness of others, the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others, the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others, the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure, it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good, you would find your happiness in providing a banquet for others, and your dignity in existing on such crumbs as they might care to toss you.†   (source)
  • Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt.†   (source)
  • Prejudices, interests, and pursuits within the individual States will often influence decisions, rather than national prosperity and happiness.†   (source)
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