Welfare State Quotes

Welfare State Quote of the day

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.