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There are 5 segments to this. I have posted all the segments in this post. If your on my home page then it will only show the first one. You have to go to the post page by clicking on the heading to see all 5.

I found this to be a an interesting speech on the little understood and little known history of the constitution and how our federal government became what it now is. I’m sure that this is just skimming the surface of the subject but I enjoyed it.

I had someone send me an email of one of these speeches and found them very interesting. So I tracked down a bunch of them to listen to. Here are  few that gave me a lot to think about.

“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”