"Compassion comes from the heart, not the government." -- Edward Britton
"The greater the desire to perform humanitarian deeds through legislation, the greater the violence required to achieve it." -- Ron Paul
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." -- Murray N. Rothbard
"The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away." -- John S. Coleman
"Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to 'help others'." -- Philip Freneau
"Helping the poor through the government is like feeding the sparrows through cows" -- Walter Williams
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force." -- George Washington
"Government is not compassion ... Government is nothing more than structured, widespread coercion ..." -- Glen Allport
."To embrace a collectivist system ... and thereby jeopardize sustained economic growth, inevitably misallocate scarce resources, and almost necessarily perpetuate destitution, hardly merits moral acclaim. Indeed, intellectuals in general and church leaders in particular who bewail the continued existence of poverty absolutely defined, and who state that they yearn for a world in which the hungry are fed, the naked clothed, and the destitute housed, yet who ceaselessly undermine the very system which, to date, has best done what they claim to value most, are, surely, moral imbeciles." -- The Reverend Doctor John K. Williams"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison