Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."
Entitlement quotes
Entitlement
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
Pete Wilson
Politician
"An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce."
Bill Keller
Journalist
"The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements."
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"...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums."
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"You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback."
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"While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid."
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