Government cannot give what it does not first take

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the

wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, buy information pills

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 Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005)

of Love Worth Finding Ministries, Pastor Emeritus of Bellevue Baptist

Church.