Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State. — Donald Soper, Baron Soper Copy Share Image
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets. — Gerhard Schroder 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 more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In 2010, the excesses of the social welfare state are well known and understood to all Americans except the liberal wing of… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers. — Stephen Moore 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
“the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state. The” — Marc Reisner 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In reply to the argument that a little socialism is good so long as it doesn't go too far. It is tempting… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
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
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
“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In many respects, Barack Obama’s neo-socialism is neoconservatism’s mirror image. Openly committed to ending the Reagan era, Obama is a firm believer… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
“The new black conservatives claim that transfer payments to the black needy engender a mentality of dependence which undercuts the value of… — Cornel West 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 complex and contradictory relation to inequality largely persists in the United States to this day: on the one hand this is… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
