The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises 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
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray 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
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding… — George Will Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky 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
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain,… — Bastiat, Frederick 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
“The colonel stood up. “I hope you enjoy your trip to Uruguay. Its government is stable, democratic, and politically mature. There’s even… — Philip Kerr 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
“For anyone born after 1945, the welfare state and its institutions were not a solution to earlier dilemmas: they were simply the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall 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
“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
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
“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided.… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
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 welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those… — Grover Norquist 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
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the… — Angela Rayner 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
“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
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
![“The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA…” quote by Jacob G. Hornberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/783/jacob-g-hornberger-22243_agency_the-biggest-threat-to-the-american-peopl_318145.jpg)
![“[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.” quote by Michael Palin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e7/michael-palin-7172_alive_there-are-people-who-make-a-complete-and_1020436.jpg)
