"For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies." (2 Thess. 3:10-11)

You can't maintain a civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, and 15-year-olds killing each other, and 17-year-olds dying of AIDS, and 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. The welfare state has just plain failed, and it's failed because it reduces human beings from citizens to clients, because it subjects them to rules that are anti-family, anti-work, anti-property and anti-opportunity. The challenge of our generation is to replace the welfare state. (From Newt Gingrich, November 10, 1993, news conference, Wallstreet Journal, 12-17-93, p. A14)

Paul said, "...That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you." (1 Thess. 4:11)