The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets. — Gerhard Schroder Copy Share Image
Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State. — Donald Soper, Baron Soper Copy Share Image
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters — Tommy Farr Copy Share Image
Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“The unhealthiness of Dependistan underlines the real problem with the modern welfare state: it's not that it's a waste of money but… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less… — Caspar Weinberger Copy Share Image
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Great Britain didn't just happen; the British people created this country through decades and centuries of hard work, fighting for democracy, the… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The welfare states of continental Europe—what the French call the Etat providence, or providential state—followed yet a third model. Here, the emphasis… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state. ... I am in favor of the unilateral reduction of tariffs, but… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that the Great Reversal preceded the rise of the welfare state in America. Lyndon Johnson’s War on… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
“The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“As clear as it is important, the death of Detroit is still mostly ignored. Generally, the slow destruction of a major city… — Daniel Greenup Copy Share Image
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“How did we get the 1960s? One is tempted to locate the ideological roots of this era in the 1930s. The expansion… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Zach, it doesn't matter which talking heads the Republicrats put up as their candidates. Either way you're voting to maintain the status… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The pre-Thatcher state had functioned on the understanding that there was such a thing as society. Governments on both sides of the… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“What was shocking were the rewards my father's cousins had gathered in the intervening couple of decades. They farmed now on thousands… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But until you ask why there’s an increase in social disintegration, and why more and more resources are being directed towards the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image