A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Gerald Ford
We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes. Jean Jaures
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important. Gertrude Stein
Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has. Persian Proverb
Often the best way to give oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has. Moroccan Proverb
Take from the hungry, give it to the full/satisfied. Persian Proverb