James Bovard Quotes About Welfare

Quotes about: Welfare

• The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

  James Bovard

  Government, Order, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.137, Macmillan

• Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

  James Bovard

  People, Achievement, Welfare

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.81, Macmillan

• Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.

  James Bovard

  Risk, Liberty, Today

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