Saying of the Week – if Not The Decade

Someone sent me this quote this week. It has nothing to do with sales or marketing, but it is probably about the most inspiring yet at the same time troubling quote I have read in a very long time. It speaks volumes about what is going on in America – and what is absolutely going wrong in America today.

The quote is attributed to Dr. Adrian Rogers, an evangelical conservative, born in West Palm Beach in 1931. Dr. Rogers passed away in 2005 of pneumonia and complications from colon cancer. Whether you are a conservative, liberterian, or liberal, I would urge you to carefully consider his words. 

“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 the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

Dr. Adrian Rogers

Think about it!

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