TOP 5 LIST  ! ! ! ! ! 

Please see a follow-up article to this that Manxman sent me posted at http://blog.beliefnet.com/watchwomanonthewall/?p=4003 .  Notice Manxman’s comment below.

These are  possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever  read:

1.  You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

2.  What  one person receives without working for, another person must work for without  receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody  anything that the government does not first  take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth  by dividing it.

5. 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 is the beginning of  the end of any nation.

 

Can you think  of a reason for not sharing this?

               Neither could  I……

 

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