Liberal Largess

“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”
--G. Gordon Liddy

Tyrants' Largess

“Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, “Long live the King!” The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
--Étienne de La Boétie