[Describing France:] Every place swarms with beggars ... because the Poor depend upon private Charity for Support, instead of being provided for by Parishes as in England or Towns in America.
Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.
When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.
The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.
The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence.
I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
