In this old divisive, Us v. Them, progressive-populist world of take & take some more by supposedly pure forgotten people on the political left, concerned about income inequality & not taking enough of the earnings of successful people & corporations who employ people, & the political right, concerned about finding Trump-inspired autocratic ways of bypassing the checks & balances of Congress & the courts while looking @ the Constitution as a nuisance to work around rather than the bedrock foundation of our republic that mandates oaths of allegiance to support & defend, & displaying an exclusionary nativist trait regarding job protectionism for American workers competing against foreign workers who make pennies a day, I present the following quotations to help turn the progressive-populist "you deserve" mindset around.
1. "A house divided cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln (originally traces to the Bible - Matthew, Mark, & Luke)
2. "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
3 "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse." - Florence Nightingale
4. "Discipline: doing what you have to do, & doing it as well as you possibly can, & doing it that way all the time." - Bobby Knight
5. "Never give an order that can be understood; always give orders that cannot be misunderstood." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
I find the point of #5 regarding giving orders that cannot be misunderstood also applies to writing. You should write not to be understood, but so that you could not possibly be misunderstood. And in this regard, quotation #1 is exactly what progressive-populists have in mind.
