Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected

Manufacturing is the most important…route to prosperity.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool

Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped

There is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity.

It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.