Causes Quote by Martin Durkin

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and…

— Mark Steyn

“the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state.   The”

— Marc Reisner

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be…

— Arthur Compton

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system…

— Emily Thornberry

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on…

— Peter Drucker

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal…

— George Gilder

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success:…

— Niall Ferguson

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of…

— Thomas Sowell

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves,…

— Pema Chodron

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and…

— Doug Bandow

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

— Jeb Bush

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on…

— Khaled Hosseini