Dependence on Government Quotes

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

All communities are apt to look to government for too much ... especially at periods of sudden embarrassment and distress. This ought not to be.

I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.

You cannot legislate a spirit of tolerance through an anti-discrimination bill any better than you could legislate sobriety through a constitutional amendment. If we are to maintain the quality of our student body-and this is a primary service to the nation--we must be completely free to select those we regard as best fitted for the privilege of a Yale education. … If we once put ourselves in the position of dependence upon government financial assistance, our freedom is lost.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.

Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

It seems paradoxical that a region so dependant on the Federal government decried government influence.

One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.