Ben Carson quote: "Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently."

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON

Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON

Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classma...
BEN CARSON

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns ...
BEN CARSON

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
BEN CARSON

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those...
BEN CARSON

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems...
BEN CARSON

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
BEN CARSON

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. T...
BEN CARSON

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within...
BEN CARSON

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided st...
BEN CARSON

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good le...
BEN CARSON

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find l...
BEN CARSON

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your...
BEN CARSON

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare we...
BEN CARSON

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the p...
BEN CARSON

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
BEN CARSON

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, bec...
BEN CARSON

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and De...
BEN CARSON

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling po...
BEN CARSON

I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom...
BEN CARSON

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be...
BEN CARSON

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're sayi...
BEN CARSON

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do ...
BEN CARSON

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the pers...
BEN CARSON

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to re...
BEN CARSON

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Wor...
BEN CARSON

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start of...
BEN CARSON

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
BEN CARSON

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of rel...
BEN CARSON

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents...
BEN CARSON

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10,...
BEN CARSON

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw an...
BEN CARSON

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
BEN CARSON

The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creat...
BEN CARSON

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politi...
BEN CARSON

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be...
BEN CARSON

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look lik...
BEN CARSON

My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the h...
BEN CARSON

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about...
BEN CARSON

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try t...
BEN CARSON

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big op...
BEN CARSON

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid...
BEN CARSON

If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get wha...
BEN CARSON

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut t...
BEN CARSON

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if...
BEN CARSON

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in t...
BEN CARSON

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
BEN CARSON

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give ...
BEN CARSON

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we hav...
BEN CARSON

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pre...
BEN CARSON

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that...
BEN CARSON

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitiv...
BEN CARSON

Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave...
BEN CARSON

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going...
BEN CARSON

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal a...
BEN CARSON

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject...
BEN CARSON

What we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military...
BEN CARSON

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to pe...
BEN CARSON

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a medi...
BEN CARSON

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
BEN CARSON

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I...
BEN CARSON

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the...
BEN CARSON

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
BEN CARSON

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked again...
BEN CARSON

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
BEN CARSON

There is no freedom without bravery.
BEN CARSON

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, beca...
BEN CARSON

We're more effective than birth control pills.
JOHNNY CARSON

I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a struct...
RAE CARSON

I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I'v...
RAE CARSON

I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classr...
RAE CARSON

I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the S...
RAE CARSON

I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is a...
RAE CARSON

I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
RAE CARSON

It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling wor...
RAE CARSON

I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Lei...
RAE CARSON

Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions ...
RAE CARSON

I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - conte...
RAE CARSON

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only...
RAE CARSON

I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
RAE CARSON

I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I wa...
RAE CARSON

I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many cou...
RAE CARSON

'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those...
RAE CARSON

I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON

When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from reader...
RAE CARSON

The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
RAE CARSON

I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's eas...
RAE CARSON

The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying t...
RAE CARSON

I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when i...
RAE CARSON

My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, t...
RAE CARSON

I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books....
RAE CARSON

Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in term...
RAE CARSON

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken plac...
JOHNNY CARSON

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
JOHNNY CARSON

A lot of guys have tons of talent, but it boils down to the mental side of things. Preparing and kno...
CARSON WENTZ

Names that come to mind that I've learned from are Tom Brady - the way he gets the ball out and ...
CARSON WENTZ

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
CARSON MCCULLERS

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished...
CARSON MCCULLERS

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said...
CARSON KRESSLEY

It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little h...
RACHEL CARSON

Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwis...
RACHEL CARSON

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of l...
RACHEL CARSON

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorro...
CARSON MCCULLERS

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...
RACHEL CARSON

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...
RACHEL CARSON

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
JOHNNY CARSON

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
JOHNNY CARSON

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biol...
RACHEL CARSON

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hun...
CARSON MCCULLERS

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
JOHNNY CARSON

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
RACHEL CARSON

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
JOHNNY CARSON

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
JOHNNY CARSON

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons ...
RACHEL CARSON

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national ...
CARSON MCCULLERS

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The peop...
RACHEL CARSON

Through all these new, imaginative, and creative approaches to the problem of sharing our earth with...
RACHEL CARSON

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...
RACHEL CARSON

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not kn...
RACHEL CARSON

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
JOHNNY CARSON

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are...
RACHEL CARSON

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one a...
RACHEL CARSON

If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult w...
RACHEL CARSON

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survi...
RACHEL CARSON

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
JOHNNY CARSON

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but ...
RACHEL CARSON

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
RAE CARSON

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pit...
RACHEL CARSON

Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
FRANK CARSON

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
FRANK CARSON

Timing and accuracy is really what matters at the end of the day.
CARSON WENTZ

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
JOHNNY CARSON

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was ...
CARSON DALY

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the roo...
CARSON DALY

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap wa...
CARSON DALY

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, ...
CARSON DALY

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off...
CARSON DALY

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I wa...
CARSON DALY

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens wh...
CARSON DALY

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Ma...
CARSON DALY

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.
CARSON DALY

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I...
CARSON DALY

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
CARSON DALY

I really like it that they promote from within.
CARSON DALY

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy abou...
CARSON DALY

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't w...
CARSON DALY

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.
CARSON DALY

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there...
CARSON DALY

No one's on at my time but infomercials.
CARSON DALY

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.
CARSON DALY

Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wante...
CARSON DALY

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try...
CARSON DALY

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
CARSON DALY

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good...
CARSON DALY

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
CARSON DALY

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great...
CARSON DALY

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress....
CARSON DALY

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perha...
BRAD CARSON

At the end of the day, you just want to go to a team that believes in you... and hopefully wants to ...
CARSON WENTZ

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day h...
JOHNNY CARSON

I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that peop...
SOFIA CARSON

It's sort of 'We're the poor step-sister of Phoenix' in many ways.
BILL CARSON

I think it's going to have a huge impact on the city. Sure, the day of the race is going to be excit...
BILL CARSON

Twenty years ago it was about drinking and being hung over. Now people want to go out and have a spe...
BILL CARSON

People pace themselves differently these days.
BILL CARSON

It's a far larger production than most people realize.
BILL CARSON

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big targ...
CARSON WENTZ

You look beautiful," Alodia says.
I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I’m beautiful ...
RAE CARSON

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...
RACHEL CARSON

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have...
CARSON MCCULLERS

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word &#...
DAVID CARSON

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look...
ANDRE CARSON

I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can r...
CARSON DALY

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the...
DAVID CARSON

If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's f...
CARSON WENTZ

I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I d...
SOFIA CARSON

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it wa...
FRANK CARSON

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody beg...
DAVID CARSON

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the ti...
CARSON KRESSLEY

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERS

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERS

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imag...
RAE CARSON

I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in grou...
DAVID CARSON

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...
RACHEL CARSON

Maine has effectively eliminated all household products that contain mercury from store shelves and ...
BROWNIE CARSON

They have no right to develop this land unless they put a persuasive case in front of the people of ...
BROWNIE CARSON

We believed then, and we believe even more strongly now, that it's the wrong development in the wron...
BROWNIE CARSON

Some people have said that the only game in town is the Plum Creek plan. We believe that there is an...
BROWNIE CARSON

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

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