Quotes by Government Welfare And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. Edmund Burke government-welfare scarcity hands The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success. Henry Hazlitt government-welfare effort two We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. Ronald Reagan government-welfare success people People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. Taylor Caldwell government-welfare libertarian people We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. Thomas Jefferson government-debt government-welfare historical