Quotes About Dependency

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

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.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.