Achievement Quote by James Bovard

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

— George Mikes

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy…

— Grover Norquist

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

— Charles A. Murray

Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look…

— Sheldon Richman

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of…

— Mitt Romney

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

— James Madison

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— John Stossel

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

— Christopher Pike

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be…

— Baron de Montesquieu