The very welfare state the Occupy Wall Street protesters so eagerly applaud is what has saddled Greece with colossal debt and left… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers… — Avram Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“It ain't have no place in the world that exactly like a place where a lot of men get together to look… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The United States, with the greatest ability and the weakest desire to finance a welfare state, winds up in the middle of… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“It is unclear what Fred Koch’s views of Hitler were during the 1930s, beyond his preference for the country’s work ethic in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis… — Abdul Qadeer Khan Copy Share Image
“The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“low-skilled workers and low-income families because public supports are particularly important for these persons’ well-being and because their experiences of the welfare… — Steven Rathgeb Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the… — Martin Durkin Copy Share Image
Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
