Today on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, President Obama made a speech about Mr. Lincoln and how he helped make the Obama presidency possible. Here is a quote from Abraham Lincoln. Do you think President Obama feels the same way?
“Property is the fruit of labor. Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence…. I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm then good.” (Quoted in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1955 p. 7.)
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