Thomas E. Dewey Quotes

The prosperity of all is the interest of all.

It cannot be too often repeated that in this country, in the long run, we all of us tend to go up or go down together.

… real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

We all do better when we all do better.

We believe that “we are all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you are on your own”.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

Her success is my success.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

We all need each other.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.