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Economic Ten Commandments by Abraham Lincoln
Posted on 8/8/25 at 11:50 am
Posted on 8/8/25 at 11:50 am
I recently found an old bookmark my economics professor gave me over 30 years ago. This was an actual paper bookmark you would use to mark the page in the book where you stopped reading. He made this compilation of quotes and titled it "Economic Ten Commandments by Abraham Lincoln". These ten were printed on the bookmark:
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1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3. You cannot help small people by tearing down big people.
4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
5. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence.
10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
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Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:13 pm to Lou
Communists hate that list.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:18 pm to Lou
Source or can you upload the bookmark?
Thanks
Thanks
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:22 pm to Lou
Would support this being posted in every classroom.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:28 pm to ChristisKing77
Yep and he is the only president to allow 600,000 deaths on American soil.
That is more than any other war that we got involved with.
That is more than any other war that we got involved with.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:34 pm to Cheese Grits
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Source or can you upload the bookmark?
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These sentiments were created by the Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, who lectured around the United States about industrial relations at the turn of the twentieth century. There is no evidence linking them to Lincoln as the author.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:37 pm to Lou
Sounds like ten things we like to do, by Democrats.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:37 pm to TrueTiger
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Communists hate that list.
I was about to say Democrats break all those rules, and today, Dems and Communists think alike.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:38 pm to Lou
Good sentiments but they’re just conclusory statements.
You could find a top ten liberal tenets that would appeal to your benevolence and concern for the common man.
We are humans and life is a human endeavour. There is more to it that a top ten list on a bookmark.
You could find a top ten liberal tenets that would appeal to your benevolence and concern for the common man.
We are humans and life is a human endeavour. There is more to it that a top ten list on a bookmark.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:46 pm to Cheese Grits
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:50 pm to Lou
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Abraham Lincoln
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:56 pm to ChristisKing77
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11. You cannot divorce the federal government despite the abusive relationship we have with it or I will kill you
I’m a big John Wilkes Booth fan myself.
This post was edited on 8/8/25 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 8/8/25 at 1:03 pm to Lou
These weren't written by Lincoln but still hold truth.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 1:09 pm to Lou
Lincoln was an awful economics president.
About as anti free market as a president can be.
He was a Henry Clay disciple
About as anti free market as a president can be.
He was a Henry Clay disciple
Posted on 8/8/25 at 1:09 pm to ChristisKing77
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11. You cannot divorce the federal government despite the abusive relationship we have with it or I will kill you
Posted on 8/8/25 at 1:44 pm to ChristisKing77
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It’s not really that funny when you think about long this country has been living a lie that we’re a free people
Jesus Christ, Francis. Lighten up. I'm trapped on a business trip in Bumfrick Hungary and it's a Friday night. Chill the frick out.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 2:22 pm to Lou
No matter who wrote it, that's a very good list of economic truisms. It touches on two of the most important ways that governments destroy their economy; debt and bad incentives. Goes to show that there's nothing new under the sun, just new packaging of old ideas.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 2:24 pm to Lou
2 through 5 are basically the same thing
Posted on 8/8/25 at 2:31 pm to Lou
Republicans raise debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
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8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money
Posted on 8/8/25 at 2:33 pm to ChristisKing77
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we’re a free people
Are we?
Don’t pay your taxes and see what happens.
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