"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream --the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'" -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure,the creed
of ignorance and the gospel of envy." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom
Better to starve free than be a fat slave." –
Aesop (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek
fabulist
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. -- Ben Franklin
"Shared sacrifice" really means taking other people's money, while "greed" is not wanting to give it up and "responsibility" is when the government takes it anyway. Jonah Goldberg
"Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry."
-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve
neither Liberty
nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin
The difference between a welfare state and a
totalitarian state is a matter of time. Ayn Rand