Wisdom

I received the following paragraph in an email and thought it so profound, I had to share it here. I did a little research and as near as I can tell it is attributed to Dr. Adrian Pierce Rogers, a very wise man in my estimation.

“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.”

Profound words indeed. I wish our esteemed President would heed them.