You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity
by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
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.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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 for any nation.
