Quotes About Entitlement

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

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

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

Get out of my chair, dillhole!

What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.