{"id":557,"date":"2009-09-04T20:37:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2011-01-23T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T22:19:11","slug":"words-of-wisdom-famous-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/words-of-wisdom-famous-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WORDS OF WISDOM &#8211; FAMOUS QUOTES<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<li>You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot build character and courage by taking away people&#8217;s initiative and\u00a0independence.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.<\/li>\n<ul>&#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/ul>\n<p>I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.<\/p>\n<ul>&#8211; Winston Churchill<\/ul>\n<p>A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.<\/p>\n<ul>&#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/ul>\n<p>The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.<\/p>\n<ul>&#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/ul>\n<p>A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.<\/p>\n<ul>&#8211; G Gordon Liddy<\/ul>\n<p>Government&#8217;s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If it moves, tax it.<\/li>\n<li>If it keeps moving, regulate it.<\/li>\n<li>And if it stops moving, subsidize it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>&#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/ul>\n<p>If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it&#8217;s free!<\/p>\n<ul>&#8211; P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/ul>\n<p>A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.<\/p>\n<ul>&#8211; Thomas Jefferson<\/ul>\n<li>Without God there is no prompting of the conscience&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Without God democracy will not and cannot long endure&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>If we ever forget we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.<\/li>\n<ul>&#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORDS OF WISDOM &#8211; FAMOUS QUOTES You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}