Quotes about Entitlement

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.

All they wanted now was what she herself wanted only a few short hours ago: to be bowed to when they caught certain people's eyes; to be invited to one more dull house; to be put on the Rector's Executive Committees, and pour tea at the Consuless's "afternoons".

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!