Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.