The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into… — Emily Thornberry 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
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
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
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American… — Jacob G. Hornberger 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
“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is… — Werner Neff 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
“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
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
In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea),… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
“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
The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
“the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation… — Rosa Brooks 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
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell 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
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“P4- no amount of dollars can remove the inherent destructiveness off welfare institutions once the professional hierarchies off these have convinced society… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Free immigration is wonderful, it is fabulous. But when you have a welfare state, and a part of society is paying for… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
“The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion - and the welfare state should… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“Reagan (or, at least, the public’s version of him) was tailor-made for the sociopathic electorate. Never again would the Boomers be told… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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