QUOTES OF THE DAY 1-31-12

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain

“We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.” Calvin Coolidge

“Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we’d call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that’s exactly what thieves do — redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders’ vision, it’s a sin in the eyes of God.” Walter E. Williams

“I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands; and if He had ever made another class that He intended should do all the work and no eating, He would have made them with hands and no mouths.” Abraham Lincoln

“No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.” Walter E. Williams

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” James Madison

“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” Plutarch

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” Frederic Bastiat