Quotes About Government Handouts

#1. One of Obama's greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work ... So sad.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Paul LePage

#4. None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Barry Goldwater

#5. You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

Carrie Fisher

#6. More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.

Henry Hazlitt

#7. Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

Anna Meredith

#8. The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. You can't see clearly through defensiveness.

Bryant McGill

#10. With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Janine Benyus

#12. He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.

Heather O'Neill

#13. I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

Jamaica Kincaid

#14. When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

Robert Reich

#15. Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

Simon Heffer

#16. Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

Michael Gove

#17. Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Our education serves three purposes. First, we must learn what others think we must know. Second, we cannot profess anything that is not widely accepted. Third, we must learn to hide our own ignorance and never speak about it in public.

D.A. Blankinship

#19. There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.

Scarlett Johansson

#21. If you believe in something, then you shouldn't give up on it.

Harry Styles

#22. Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts ... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

James Bovard