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!
[Adrien Rogers]
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ... For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ... And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.❤
