Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Legislating Freedom...

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. 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 about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

1 comment:

Alicia said...

That's a really great quote. I know a man who is getting ready to go back to work after 10 months of taking unemployment and he thinks it would be easier to stay home and take the unemployment.