유익한 글 英 대처 총리 핸드백 속에 있던 警句 (대처의 '십계명')

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 英 대처 총리 핸드백 속에 있던 警句 (대처의 '십계명')

윌리엄 보테커(William J. H. Boetcker)라는 목사는 1916년에 ‘10가지 할 수 없는 일(Ten Cannots)’을 썼다.
이 내용을 영국의 마가렛 대처 수상은 핸드백 속에 항상 넣고 다녔다고 한다.

△검약하지 않고 풍요로울 수는 없다.
△큰 사람을 울게 만들어 작은 사람을 도와줄 수 없다.
△강한 사람을 약하게 만들어 약한 사람을 강하게 만들 수는 없다.
△월급을 주는 사람을 끌어내려 월급 받는 사람을 끌어 올릴 수는 없다.
△부자를 망하게 만들어 가난한 자를 도울 수는 없다.
△소득보다 더 많이 쓰면 문제에서 벗어날 수 없다.
△집단적인 분노를 자극해 인류의 형제애를 증진할 수는 없다.
△빌린 돈으로 안정을 꾀할 수는 없다.
△사람들의 주도권과 독립성을 빼앗아 인격과 용기를 쌓아 올릴 수는 없다.
△다른 사람들이 할 수 있고 해야 할 일을 대신해 주면 영원히 그들을 도울 수 없다.

 [William J. H. Boetcker] - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William John Henry Boetcker (1873–1962) was an American religious leader and influential public speaker.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival in the United States as a young adult. The Rev. Boetcker was ordained in Brooklyn, New York.

He quickly gained attention as an eloquent motivational speaker, and is often regarded today as the forerunner of such contemporary "success coaches" as Anthony Robbins.

 The Ten Cannots

An outspoken political conservative, Rev. Boetcker is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots that emphasizes freedom and responsibility of the individual on himself. Originally published in 1916, it is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. The error apparently stems from a leaflet printed in 1942 by a conservative political organization called the Committee for Constitutional Government. The leaflet bore the title "Lincoln on Limitations" and contained some genuine Lincoln quotations on one side and the "Ten Cannots" on the other, with the attributions switched. The genuine Lincoln quotations may have been from an address on March 21, 1864 in which Lincoln said "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 labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." [1] The mistake of crediting Lincoln for "The Ten Cannots" has been repeated many times since, notably by Ronald Reagan in his address to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston.

There are several minor variants of the pamphlet in circulation, but the most commonly accepted version appears below:

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
5. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
6. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
9. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
10. And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

 Boetcker also spoke of the "Seven National Crimes":

1. I don’t think.
2. I don’t know.
3. I don’t care.
4. I am too busy.
5. I leave well enough alone.
6. I have no time to read and find out.
7. I am not interested.

I talk to Americans everyday who offer one or more of these “criminal” excuses for not engaging in the political effort. Yes, there is corruption … in BOTH parties. Yes, things are a mess, but how will it change if We-the-People do not change it? This is the safeguard built into the Constitutional Republic in which we live. We have a say! If enough of us don’t like the way things are going, WE have the right and the ability to change things.

Is it all the fluoride in our water that mollifies us? Is it that we’re really quite comfortable? Is it that it can’t really be as bad as they’re sayin? Scarier still, what will it take to wake the American people up?