Politics Quote by Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Help people help themselves. Don’t make people dependent on you.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

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

“By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by…

— Victoria Stoklasa

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it…

— Ron Paul

“the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of its citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good’.76”

— Edward Luce

“In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏”

— Celso Cukierkorn

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

— John F. Kennedy

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“We started with entitlement programs that generously met the needs of individuals unable to provide enough for themselves.  This slowly but surely created a…

— G.S. Kyle

“Why people suffer thou the is government. It is because everyone fight into power to take care of themselves than to serve the people…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

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