[Describing France:] Every place swarms with beggars ... because the Poor depend upon private Charity for Support, instead of being provided for by Parishes as in England or Towns in America.
What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance.
Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Let there be convenient cages for the committing of unruly vagrants in every ward.
