Originally Posted by
fuego
I was wondering if that was him, but I thought the quote was from him, and didn't think he'd be old enough to say that in '31. lol.
"You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
This quote appears frequently[13][14][15] on the Internet and is often attributed to Rogers with an incorrect date of 1931. In fact, the quotation is part of a longer sermon by Rogers from 1984 in a larger series titled God's Way to Health, Wealth and Wisdom (CDA107),[16] but it also appears as a passage in Rogers' 1996 work Ten Secrets for a Successful Family stating that "by and large our young people do not know either the importance or the value of honest labor".[17]
Rogers did not originate the quote at all. In fact, he did not claim to have originated it. Instead, he was citing almost verbatim anti-Soviet propaganda that had circulated in many magazines in the early 1960s.[18] The quote appeared before that in the Congressional Record of 1958, where it was appended to the record by U.S. Senator George Aiken of Vermont. Aiken had taken the words from Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, who had said them in his address at the Illinois Agricultural Association's annual meeting on November 13, 1957.[19] They have also been attributed to Gerald L. K. Smith, who had written them in his magazine, The Cross and the Flag.[20] Since the quote was attributed to Rogers in 2009, it has been regularly attributed to him; however, Rogers was essentially quoting Eastland or Smith at the time.
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