[SanchoP]

“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

[karpov]

Good quote, but I think it's from P.J. O'Rourke's Liberty Manifesto.

[An.American.Expatriate]

IMHO the fact that I have a right to something does not equate to an obligation from someone else, or the government, to provide it.
I have a right to own a house. If I have sufficient funds and/or meet the same requirements for a loan that apply to everyone, I cannot be denied the chance to purchase one.
I have a right to food, otherwise I would die. Which means that I cannot be denied the opportunity to either purchase it or grow it.
In fact, I have the right to just about anything that We, as a People, did not explicitly empower the government to provide for in the Constitution.
I guess, in Tocqueville’s time, there was already this confusion between personal rights and the obligations of others ...

[super7man]

Do you a reference for that? It just doesn’t sound like Alexis de Tocqueville.