{"id":12094,"date":"2016-02-19T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2016-02-19T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:47:49","slug":"dose-of-truth-the-10-cannots-by-william-boetcker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/19\/dose-of-truth-the-10-cannots-by-william-boetcker\/","title":{"rendered":"Dose of Truth: “The 10 Cannots” by William Boetcker"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Things to Consider as you listen to all the riduculous Political theater being broadcast 24\/7. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 and independence.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 and should do for themselves.”<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    William Boetcker
    \n<\/span>(1873-1962) German-born Presbyterian clergyman<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n


    \n<\/span>Source: “The Ten Cannots” (1916)\u00a0<\/span>often falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    10 Things to Consider as you listen to all the riduculous Political theater being broadcast 24\/7. -SF 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}