Davy Crockett said,
Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity. But as members of Congress, we have no right to appropriate a dollar of money as charity.
Calvin Coolidge said this,
It does not follow that because something ought to be done, the national government ought to do it.
Random but common complaints,
"But we need to take care of the poor." Yes, we do, but it's not the government's job.
"We need to help the immigrants." Yes, we do but it's not the government's job.
Gerald Ford said,
People say why don't you expand that program and spend more federal money? I look them in the eye and say, you realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have
Thanks to William J. Federer.
From The American Minute. "Not Yours To Give," Davy Crockett, Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina B. Greaves (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1975).
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