Welfare Quotes

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

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

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.

What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.