Top 5 Government Welfare Quotes

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Success, Government Welfare, People

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Government Welfare, Government Debt, Historical

Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Edmund Burke

Hands, Government Welfare, Scarcity

'Thoughts and Details on Scarcity' (1800)

The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success.

Henry Hazlitt

Government Welfare, Two, Effort

Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.211, Ludwig von Mises Institute