Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell 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
“The sewer system is a form of welfare state. It’s a government funnel to the sea.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think the state should be as small as possible and only there to pick up where people need help, such as… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell 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
The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle… — Zadie Smith 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
“the welfare states of western Europe were not politically divisive. They were socially re-distributive in general intent (some more than others) but… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'… — 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
“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“But one of the main reasons why Denmark does so well in international happiness surveys is the welfare state, as it reduces… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're… — George f. Will 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
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
“somewhat different. Many European countries have long practiced something resembling social democracy: but they have forgotten how to preach it. Social democrats… — Tony Judt 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
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is… — Arnold Kling 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
The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
