The wisdom in the following quote just makes me shiver:

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it. You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else. Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving. The worst thing that can happen to a nation is for half of the people to get the idea they don’t have to work because somebody else will work for them, and the other half to get the idea that it does no good to work because they don’t get to enjoy the fruit of their labor.

~Dr. Adrian Rodgers, three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988).

That right there is a out-of-the-park kind of home run. I mean, just think about it. Look at each sentence individually and realize the depth of wisdom in each one. Each one is a wisdom into itself, and the synergy of all of them together is extremely powerful.

Hat tip to (believe or not) The Memphis Liberal, although I think he meant the opposite as to what I read into it.