Possibly the five best sentences you're ever likely to read.

A friend recently emailed me the following five sentences.  I have no idea where they came from, but I though they were worth sharing with you.   

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. 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 of any nation.

Best Wishes

Will


Update
A bit of searching round the Internet leads me to believe that these words were first spoken by the American baptist preacher Dr Adrian Rogers in 1984.  They seem rather apt for the UK in 2011.