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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
William Boetcker
11 Answers
- imnoangel512Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
agreed but our society is the opposite of that and we will pay dearly for it.
- 1 decade ago
You must be rich. You must be self-centered. You must be all-powerful and never had to struggle for anything you wanted or needed.
You must be male. You must be "preachy." You must be self-righteous. You must be a Corporate Mogul. You must be a Right-Wing Conservative like Rush Limbaugh!
I don't agree with anything you have said, because I am one of "the small ones," I have been the "strong one" who was weakened and one of the "weak ones" who never gets back to where she was before.
I have to spend more than I earn, because I haven't had work in 8 years and I have to EAT! "Class hatred" has been around forever, and will continue to be, as long as "the small ones" are taken over by "the strong ones." "Initiative" and "Independence" do not include Corporate Takeovers, Copyright and Trademark Infringement, and "low-down-dirty corrupt Counterfeit marketing techniques." Nobody is "doing for other people what they can do for themselves!" Somebody is trying to "do her own thing," and has spent the past 50 years of her life helping people discover what they can do for themselves!
Where on earth did you learn so much arrogance? I wonder if you just had bad parenting!!!!
Source(s): 64 years of life in a world better than wherever you came from!!! - budleit2Lv 61 decade ago
Well good ole William Boetcker plagerized Abraham Lincoln those are all quotes from old honest Abe.
They are known as the Ten Cannots' by Abraham Lincoln
He wrote them in a letter to his brother
Source(s): source the world famous Penny exihibit. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
yes
- CroakerLv 61 decade ago
nope we taxed the piss out of the rich from 1940 until 1980 and it worked.
it made us the greatest nation on earth. since 1980 though we have slipped.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I totally agree....Makes perfect sense!
- Hmmmmm?Lv 51 decade ago
Sounds like a heartless ****** who was trying to come up with excuses not to help his fellow man. Hope he and his money enjoy hell
