- “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”– Thomas Jefferson
- “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy
- “In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.” –Voltaire (1764)
- “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” — Winston Churchill
- “You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.”
- “What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.”
- “The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.”
- “You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
- “Social entrepreneurs are the actors who do the work, social enterprises are the organizational forms that are used, social innovation is the theory of change that guides the process, and social impact is the end result that is achieved.” Dr. Peter Frumkin Directs the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and oversees the Masters in Nonprofit Leadership program at the University of Pennsylvania.
- “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson
- “When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!” Anonymous