Welfare State Quotes

62 Welfare State quotes by 48 unique authors

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited… — Robert Higgs
Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich… — Larry Elder
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when… — Lawrence Reed
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable.… — Doug Bandow
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on… — Dennis Prager
To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet. — George Mikes
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that… — Maj Sjowall
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy… — Noam Chomsky
The future of Norway isn’t about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer… — Erna Solberg
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C.S. Lewis
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… — Jacob G. Hornberger
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and… — Ronald Reagan
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing… — C.S. Lewis
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to… — Jacques Delors
The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how… — Rush Limbaugh
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism… — Dennis Prager
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In… — Dennis Prager
Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs. — Gene Simmons
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. — Thomas Sowell
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
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the… — Thomas Sowell
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and… — Thomas Sowell

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