“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”

“He fed his spirit with the bread of books”

“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”

“Monty: Counting all this bread, I don't talk to feds”

“I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.”

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”

“As proposals for estimating the social scarcity prices of natural resources remain contentious, economic accountants ignore them and governments remain wary of doing anything about them.”

“On the other hand, the free states carry on their government on the principle of the equality of men. We think slavery is morally wrong, and a direct violation of that principle. We all think it wrong. It is clearly proved, I think, by natural theology, apart from revelation. Every man, black, white or yellow, has a mouth to be fed and two hands with which to feed it, and that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.”

“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”

“Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.”