21. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
22. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
23. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
24. "There is no freedom without bravery."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
25. "While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
26. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
27. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
28. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
29. "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."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
30. "Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written by extremely learned men, is quite easy to understand and should serve as a gold standard for the language and size of subsequent legislation that is introduced."
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future