Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-07-02 Jul 2, 2026A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry BrowneWe have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.~ Milton FriedmanThis is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.~ Nicholas Kristof Jul 1, 2026The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.~ Frederic BastiatLook at America now; older middle-income Americans are encouraged to divest themselves of their assets in order to qualify for Medicaid so that taxpayers at large must subsidize the costs of warehousing the artificially impoverished nursing homes -- in the name of “independent living” and “not being a burden to the children.”~ Daniel F. WalkerThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Jun 30, 2026To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.~ Friedrich August von HayekBut there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.~ Hilaire Belloc Jun 29, 2026We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.~ Dr. Ron PaulParties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them.~ Elbert HubbardWe have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.~ George Bernard Shaw Jun 26, 2026Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.~ Ayn RandAnd so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.~ John F. KennedyGovernment can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print