The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
- Helen KellerDespite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
- Thomas SowellThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
- Thomas SowellThe assumption that spending more of the taxpayer`s money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."
- Thomas SowellIt is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- Thomas SowellOne of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
- Thomas SowellThe principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.
- Avram Noam ChomskyThe welfare of the people is the ultimate law
- Marcus Tullius CiceroWelfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.
- Peter C. Goldmark, Jr.