Firsts Quote by Henry Hazlitt

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

— Adrian Rogers

For government to give, it must first take away.

— Rush Limbaugh

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

— Milton Friedman

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

— Henry Hazlitt

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to…

— Ludwig von Mises

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

— Margaret Thatcher

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

— Winston Churchill

I don't give my money to the government.

— Dan Bongino

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

— John Stossel

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

— John Stossel

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

— John Caldwell

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

— Stephen Moore