Thursday, May 14, 2009

De Tocqueville on Welfare

"Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work....Such a law is a poisonous germ, deposited in the bosom of the legal code,...and if the current genaration escapes its influence, it will devour the well-being of generations to come."

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