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From: drude Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009

[David Vincent  Gilbert]

These are possibly the 5 best sentences on politics you'll ever read.  They should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union.

1- "You cannot legislate the poor  into prosperity by legislating the wealthy 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- 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.


5- You cannot  multiply wealth by dividing  it..."    

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