Re: Interesting Quote

On Jul 21, 3:41 pm, dam <dave.mel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the
wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working
for, another person must work for without receiving. The government
cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first
take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that
they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care
of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to
work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my
dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot
multiply wealth by dividing it."

Adrian Rogers, 1931

emailed to me today.

these sound a little like this:

The Ten Cannots
1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
5. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
6. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class
hatred.
8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
9. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's
initiative and independence.
10. And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they
can and should do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker, 1916:
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