Welfare Quotes
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime
Frederic Bastiat
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Hilaire Belloc
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
Orson Scott Card
It's about food. ItÃs about your home. ItÃs about your life. The government is worried about all of the above. All IÃm saying is you should be worried theyÃre worried. HereÃs why: TheyÃre telling you that you canÃt take care of yourself. You canÃt be trusted with what you put in your mouth or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line. So theyÃll tell you what to put in your mouth and theyÃll save you from what you signed on that dotted line. Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has now become government responsibility
Neil Cavuto
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention
Kahlil Gibran
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away
Barry Goldwater
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a socio political monster called the welfare state to exist
Barry Goldwater
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend
Fredrich August von Hayek
The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies
Samuel P. Hays
The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire
Robert A. Heinlein
The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous
W. G. Hill
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility
Eric Hoffer
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have notch" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor
Eric Hoffer
People who make careers out of helping others -- sometimes at great sacrifice, often not -- usually don't like to hear that those others might get along fine, might even get along better, without their help
John Holt
