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→Quotes about the Welfare State
* "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the [[state]]. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." -- [[Frederic Bastiat]]
* "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the [[state]]. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." -- [[Frederic Bastiat]]
* “But how is this [[legal]] [[theft|plunder]] to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and [[income redistribution|gives it to other persons]] to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one [[citizen]] at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a [[crime]].” – Frederic Bastiat, ''The Law''
* "A [[democracy]] is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the [[National debt|public treasury]]. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose [[fiscal policy]]…" -- Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish lawyer and writer, 1770
* "A [[democracy]] is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the [[National debt|public treasury]]. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose [[fiscal policy]]…" -- Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish lawyer and writer, 1770