Welfare Quotes
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. (Quote by - Larry Elder)
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. (Quote by - James Madison)
I see immigration as being the welfare reform of this decade. (Quote by - Frank Luntz)
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. (Quote by - Jack Kingston)
We've had unfortunately a fire overnight, we believe it was deliberately lit. The welfare building, as we call it at the detention center, was extensively damaged, (Quote by - Chris Ellison)
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. (Quote by - Mel Carnahan)
Their view of the child's welfare is such -- and it's so distorted -- that there's no way they can conceive of a child ever being better off in any country outside of Germany. (Quote by - James Feinerman)
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
I consider my welfare days as a positive experience, ... It was a problem to solve. (Quote by - Christine King)
There is a threat to this country from Christian missionaries who in the name of development and welfare activities are converting poor people, especially in tribal areas across the country. (Quote by - Rajnath Singh)
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity. (Quote by - Brigham Young)
Iranian levers of influence include a broad network of informants, military and logistical support of armed groups, and social welfare campaigns. (Quote by - Nawaf Obaid)
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society moreeffectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
What we're doing is protecting elderly disabled immigrants in nursing homes, ... They're not part of the welfare reform debate. The welfare reform debate is about moving people from welfare to work. (Quote by - Donna Shalala)
Exxon is a good corporate citizen but it does not work for the welfare of the country. (Quote by - Fadel Gheit)
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. (Quote by - Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Not a day goes by where she's not worried about their specific welfare. (Quote by - Doug Anderson)
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. (Quote by - Edward Thorndike)
Since the Celtic Tiger, incomes have increased generally but social welfare incomes haven't increased as much as earnings in general. (Quote by - Helen Johnston)
These guys are extremely committed to the welfare and well-being of the animals. (Quote by - Joe Johnson)
The governor believes the child welfare system is in a state of crisis and that we should move quickly to address any and all impediments to reform. (Quote by - Anthony Coley)
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. (Quote by - Mel Carnahan)
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. (Quote by - James L. Buckley)
People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases. (Quote by - Kim Edwards)
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
We take action such as this to protect the safety and welfare of the residents. This is an open AHCA investigation. The closing is based on our investigation. (Quote by - Jonathan Burns)
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. (Quote by - Jim Fowler)
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. (Quote by - Al Capp)
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)
The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county. (Quote by - Thomas Jordan Jarvis)
For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. (Quote by - Tammy Bruce)
The harsh reality is in many instances they're actually better off on welfare. (Quote by - Don Drummond)
Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. … While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that. (Quote by - Louie Anderson)
The security and welfare of all people by political and educational and other activities. (Quote by - Reid Weingarten)
I don't think consumers benefit from corporate welfare, and that's all that these proposals add up to. With energy prices as high as they are, we don't need to provide any incentives. (Quote by - Jerry Taylor)
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands. (Quote by - Tavis Smiley)
The Department of State places the highest priority on the welfare of children who have been victimized by international abductions. (Quote by - Phil Reeker)
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. (Quote by - Alan Corenk)
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. (Quote by - Carol Burnett)
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out. (Quote by - Harry Browne)
the ultimate combination of protectionism, corporate welfare and government waste. (Quote by - Jim Ramstad)
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. (Quote by - William H. Seward)
not the ones who were on welfare. Not the ones who didn't have jobs. (Quote by - Mary Hunt)
Our concern is the animal welfare aspect of this move (export) and in this case, the mortality of the wildlife during the capture, the transit and at the destination in Thailand. (Quote by - Elizabeth Wamba)
We don't have anything in the safety net other than welfare, which is why there's nothing else to catch them on the way down, so they end up on the welfare rolls -- which is inappropriate. (Quote by - Don Drummond)
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. (Quote by - Aesop)
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. (Quote by - Auberon Herbert)
The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority, (Quote by - Eddie Murphy)
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges' views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. (Quote by - Justice Hugo L. Black)
If the pageant's welfare was better served, you had to make a move. Today, it's exactly the situation they're in. (Quote by - Leonard Horn)
We've got no alternative but to transfer funds from defense to other priorities like welfare and education. (Quote by - Zeev Holtzman)
His concern was for the child and the female and their welfare and safety. (Quote by - Mac McMullen)
In our view, welfare reform should not be pronounced a 'success' until the outcome among these -- the poorest families with children -- is one of consistent income gains rather than income stagnation or losses. (Quote by - Wendell Primus)
Bob, the taxpayers thank you, ... A lot of families heretofore on welfare, as fathers and mothers with their children, thank you for your great leadership. (Quote by - George Allen)
This is an obvious form of welfare for the rich. (Quote by - Orrin Pilkey)
It's a welfare program for the industry, so it's hard to turn off. (Quote by - Freeman Dyson)
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you. (Quote by - Charles Evers)
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
We had to explain to voters that we can only maintain our social welfare system if we reform it, (Quote by - Gerhard Schroeder)
People, who rise above their petty individual selfishness and work for the welfare of society are considered patriots. (Quote by - Sam Veda)
The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Public welfare trumps individuals' and businesses' rights. We owe it to our children, we owe it to the public to pass this measure. It's the right thing to do. It's the right time to do it. (Quote by - Jim Curry)
This early report is very promising and shows that we are making progress in moving parents on welfare into jobs or giving them the work skills they need to get a job, (Quote by - Donna Shalala)
One, who wishes well of others and works for their welfare, quite naturally becomes the ruler of the masses. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. (Quote by - George Crook)
It really went, I think, to the heart of some of the issues of welfare reform. (Quote by - Monty Martin)
Now you can fool with the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act. It endangers the health and welfare of the entire population of this nation. (Quote by - Mike McCoy)
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
There's a need for the government to maintain social stability in the community and there's a need for higher welfare payments, partly because of higher inflation we've seen in the last year or two and the growing needs of the elderly. (Quote by - Tai Hui)
Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life. (Quote by - Todd Tiahrt)
More of our budget will have to shift to the welfare families. What Congress is doing is going to make it even harder for low-income working parents. (Quote by - Chris Duggan)
Our goal is to improve the welfare of companion animals and continue to find loving homes where these pets can enrich lives. (Quote by - Rachel Martin)
The welfare system, up until now, has encouraged illegitimacy by punishing recipients with reduction or elimination of aid if they marry. (Quote by - Tammy Bruce)
Even in previous recoveries, previous economic booms, the welfare rolls still went up, (Quote by - Ari Fleischer)
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me. (Quote by - Cathy Guisewite)
Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind. (Quote by - Henry Cabot Lodge)
He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security. (Quote by - John Gadd)
The wise should work without attachment, for the welfare of the society. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
They were just extremely concerned about the welfare of these other kids, and so they are very elated about what has transpired. (Quote by - John Bankhead)
The smallest act of kindness is worth morethan the greatest intention. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. (Quote by - Andrew Johnson)
The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security. (Quote by - Robert Welch)
The council is challenged to work for the welfare of the city as a whole, not for a few individuals within the city that don't agree with us. (Quote by - Councilman Norman Sugarman)
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
She's bent on educating our customers. She's trying to grow the business but is also very concerned about their welfare and getting them on the right track, not just about selling products. (Quote by - Rick Teegarden)
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity, ... [it] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded. (Quote by - Franklin Pierce)
We have all along been espousing the cause of the minorities and are truly concerned about their welfare unlike the Congress which uses the community as a vote bank and then forgets about it after the elections. (Quote by - Brindaban Goswami)
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. (Quote by - Arthur Henderson)
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
But we have said all along if you want to put more money in health and welfare versus wages we're more than willing to talk about that. And in fact, in the last offer the union asked that we put the bulk of that offer into wages. (Quote by - Scott Reed)
Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. (Quote by - James Roosevelt)
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. (Quote by - Charles Evers)
It's going to be terrible for everybody, including welfare recipients, ... The states are simply not going to be able to afford to produce as many of the jobs that are needed. (Quote by - Clay Shaw)
There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
Our concern in this kind of case would be for the safety and the welfare for the people on board the vessel, (Quote by - Richard Boucher)
It's a safety and welfare issue. It'll make our campus safer. (Quote by - Richard Cook)
The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
From the rookie camps to the individual clubs' own educational and welfare policies, there is a particular focus on educating players about the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption. (Quote by - David Gallop)
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
We're ignoring the health and welfare of the people of this community and acting on the opinions of a vocal minority. (Quote by - Steven Ross)
Cruelty to animals needs to be a matter of public concern as it directly affect public safety and human welfare. It can no longer be perceived of as merely an issue of animal welfare. (Quote by - Diane Balkin)
Most women are one man away from welfare. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
What this is all about is government willing to not protect the health and welfare of their own citizens. (Quote by - Tom Grey)
The magnitude of this just stops you in your tracks. It's really brought the animal welfare community together. Normally, each agency tends to be a bit territorial. Not now. (Quote by - Cory Smith)
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. (Quote by - Charles Erwin Wilson)
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to moreutility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands. (Quote by - Anthony de Jasay)
But this year there is a new alternative: the Left Party, which advocates a bigger welfare state. (Quote by - Werner Patzelt)
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities, (Quote by - Atal Behari Vajpayee)
I think the best possible social program is a job. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
The moreone considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State. (Quote by - Bertrand de Jouvenel)
None of these things like welfare even entered our minds, ... Whatever we eat, she is going to have her share. Whatever roof we have, she will have. (Quote by - Sunder Rajan)
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom. (Quote by - William Lyon Mackenzie King)
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. (Quote by - William Lyon Mackenzie King)
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. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
This case was exceptional because it was the first one to take the Social Welfare Department to court. (Quote by - Mark Daly)
The governors' plan is simply unacceptable. It misses the point of what real welfare reform is all about. (Quote by - Jim Talent)
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. (Quote by - Charles Evers)
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. (Quote by - Ralph Nader)
The welfare system in the United States is vile. (Quote by - Daniel Keys Moran)
Access to social welfare is no longer a right to all, but a privilege for the few. The criminal government is to blame for all of this. (Quote by - Viktor Yushchenko)
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office. (Quote by - Nick Clooney)
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. (Quote by - Robert Scheer)
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. (Quote by - Friedrich List)
You can't claim to be a fiscal conservative and support the profligate spending and corporate welfare in this bill, ... twelve hundred page monstrosity chock full of special interest giveaways. (Quote by - John McCain)
There was this longer term issue of sorts of the protecting the health and welfare of student athletes here. And, I simply want to do everything I can do keep this from happening again. (Quote by - Richard Wilson)
If you want to get people off of welfare and stay off of welfare, it's better to help them pay for child care. (Quote by - Pam Davis)
We're always going to be committed to animal welfare on every level, strays, owner surrenders, etc. (Quote by - Cal Morgan)
The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it (Quote by - George Gilder)
Charity begins at home. (Quote by - Publius Terentius Afer)
The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way. (Quote by - Kelly Preston)
Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
O Scholar! Work for the welfare of the nation! (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)
The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies. (Quote by - Samuel P. Hays)
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. (Quote by - Alan Greenspan)
We came here to check out the welfare of the animals. If they are not well, we'll keep them until they are well. (Quote by - Nancy Howell)
This is not a welfare deal where you hand out the money. After they have become profitable, they get a chance to take their tax credits. (Quote by - Tom Betts)
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them. (Quote by - Pauline Hanson)
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. (Quote by - Bible)
It was the right thing to do. What we can do for our partners in animal welfare across the country, they may one day need to do for us. (Quote by - Sarah Cohen)
Domestic animals are totally dependent upon our grace as humans to provide for their welfare. Everyone should be involved with animal welfare. (Quote by - Joe Wilson)
I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense. (Quote by - David Swenson)
The railroads were very aware that this could help them wriggle out of a lot of health and welfare benefits. (Quote by - Charles Collins)
Tim conceived the idea to discourage young people from getting sucked into anti-social welfare activities. The climb represents a mission of hope and true lesson in overcoming adversity. (Quote by - Anna Tibaijuka)
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. (Quote by - Mitt Romney)
I was always interested in what one can do to further social welfare. (Quote by - Derek Yach)
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. (Quote by - Hilaire Belloc)
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life. (Quote by - Robert Nisbet)
The best way to put moremoney in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place. (Quote by - Edwin Feulner)
Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. (Quote by - Lawrence Auster)
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. (Quote by - Robert Scheer)
Ninety percent of these people come to work, not to commit crimes or be on welfare. (Quote by - Luis Sanchez)
The analysis assumes that individuals maximize welfare as they conceive it, whether they be selfish, altruistic, loyal, spiteful, or masochistic. Their behavior is forward-looking, and it is also consistent over time. (Quote by - Gary Becker)
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. (Quote by - Lascelles Abercrombie)
I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but if I had to choose, I would prefer that to their being educated by the state. (Quote by - Max Victor Belz)
More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare, (Quote by - Bill Archer)
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing. (Quote by - Richard Wexler)
The Welfare to Work program has worked. (Quote by - Jane Adams)
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. (Quote by - George Pataki)
We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money. (Quote by - Davy Crockett)
Concern for one's own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one's social obligations or spiritual destiny….A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
They won votes from a wave of protest against social-welfare cuts. (Quote by - Werner Patzelt)
We completed a 4 to 5 per cent sale to the State Welfare Fund on Wednesday. The IPO scheme is going smoothly in accordance with our original plan. (Quote by - Wang Zhaowen)
Envy is the basis of Democracy. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money. (Quote by - Joseph Sobran)
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The welfare of our young is really everyone's business. (Quote by - Gary Griffiths)
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. (Quote by - Robert Casey)
We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries. (Quote by - Townsend Harris)
If we don't do something, then the next time you see us, we'll be in the welfare line. There are so many people here hurting. (Quote by - Jimmy Jones)
O Sun god! Mount on a boat of hundred 'oars' for our welfare. Accompany me... help me cross the 'Day'... and also the 'Night'. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Though the country has long included all disabled and orphaned children in its welfare system, practically only those nursed in charity organizations have been attended to. (Quote by - Dou Yupei)
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. (Quote by - Zora Neale Hurston)
What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little moregratitude -- and a lot less greed. (Quote by - Michelle Malkin)
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. (Quote by - Friedrich List)
This is going to help us immensely. It really helps our health and welfare financing situation, not only in California. (Quote by - Darrell Haire)
We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an increasing demand for welfare housing, while the actual supply of homes has continued to dwindle. (Quote by - Isaac Herzog)
The proper evaluation of a circumstance like that is critical to the welfare of the dog. (Quote by - Dave Fulbright)
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. (Quote by - Plutarch)
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
has said many times that he is concerned about the welfare of the North Korean people. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
I've never applied for any (assistance) programs, ... I make just enough where we don't qualify for welfare or anything. (Quote by - Mary Cole)
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. (Quote by - John Kasich)
Our first priority of course, is the safety and welfare of our guests. (Quote by - Bill Warren)
We are always concerned if you stick soldiers and sailors in tests that might adversely affect their health and welfare, now or in the future. We would have to do some further review before we consider it benign. (Quote by - Steve Erickson)
Subsidies entail politicians' taking the citizen's paycheck and then using it to buy his submission. (Quote by - James Bovard)
What this reinforces is the idea that, when it comes to welfare reform, nothing quite works like work. (Quote by - Wade Horn)
It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. (Quote by - Charles Edison)
Wear this attire for your own welfare! Thou are the protector of humans from destruction! May you live like this for one hundred years 'weaving' the clothes of 'Wealth' and 'Nourishment'! (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I thought he felt sore and my only concern was for the horse's welfare. (Quote by - Glen Boss)
I believe this housing issue has brought our community to a tipping point, ... We're compromising our health, safety and welfare. (Quote by - Randy Hall)
The university remains committed to the safety of all of its students and the welfare of all of its students, but the university is not a mind reader, (Quote by - Larry Pozner)
Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
I knew that she had committed welfare fraud and perjury, ... and I wanted her on the witness stand. I didn't want anything done to discourage her from testifying. (Quote by - Tom Mesereau)
If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. (Quote by - Spiro Agnew)
He is very motivated for his players' welfare. (Quote by - John Anderson)
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)
Such a practice is not consistent with our position on animal welfare, which calls on contract poultry producers to serve as stewards of the birds they raise for our company. (Quote by - Gary Mickelson)
Whether you're a Sheryl Crow fan or Melissa Etheridge fan, or you're just concerned about the welfare of women all over the world, come out and support this day and have a great time. (Quote by - Leroy Shafer)
In the end, forced access amounts to corporate welfare and consumers will be the losers, (Quote by - Jonathan Zuck)
The average length of time that a child remains in New York city's child welfare system is 49 months, which is astronomically long. (Quote by - Marsha Lowry)
The social welfare homes then had the infants adopted by foreigners who made donations. (Quote by - Xinhua News Agency)
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. (Quote by - Jacques Delors)
The government will have to ensure that its welfare-to-work measures do as much as possible to engage employers and encourage them to recruit people. (Quote by - John Philpott)
We have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence. (Quote by - John W. Raper)
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. (Quote by - John Comenius)
A good employer, whether it's a football franchise or a normal business, takes care of the welfare of their people. In sport your players are your assets and they have to be looked after. (Quote by - Chris Hickey)
There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security, (Quote by - Romano Prodi)
One time handouts and welfare payments will not solve the problem of rising poverty. The government needs to help people increase their skills, which ultimately help increase productivity levels. (Quote by - Daniel Levy)
What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare, (Quote by - Fred Siegel)
Prayer has been made to all three of them for welfare, success and prosperity. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
I don't believe in welfare. (Quote by - Charles Evers)
I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others. (Quote by - DeForest Kelley)
the obligation of the government to protect the public health, safety, morals and general welfare. (Quote by - Allan Wolf)
We should always think of other's welfare so that our own progress becomes possible. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. (Quote by - Jonathan Mayhew)
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
In all of this debate welfare of children is a very, very important issue, ... What we are not into is asking questions which somehow put a value on one gender over and above another. (Quote by - Caroline Flint)
We have no moreright to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We will be losing families who have contributed to our communities, ... We will be losing part of our economic welfare, but we will continue to attempt to bolster our community in ways that will make us successful. (Quote by - David Gudgel)
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare. (Quote by - Jim Fowler)
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security. (Quote by - Jim Fowler)
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. (Quote by - Buddha)
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community. (Quote by - Huey P. Newton)
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. (Quote by - Arthur Henderson)
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
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. (Quote by - Friedrich List)
When a government takes over a people's economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs. (Quote by - Maxwell Anderson)
France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits. (Quote by - Nicolas Sarkozy)
The expectation was that the only problem with people on welfare was that they didn't have a job. What we found is that there is part of the population that has very significant barriers, real deficits that are stopping them from being successful. (Quote by - Monty Martin)
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. (Quote by - George Westinghouse)
We hope the move can help promote the concept of animal welfare in China. (Quote by - Jill Robinson)
The case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. (Quote by - Todd Tiahrt)
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program. (Quote by - Dennis Hastert)
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change. (Quote by - John Monks)
Idleness and lack of occupation tend -- nay are dragged -- towards evil. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Not only because of the animals welfare but certainly also the public welfare. Given the link between animal fighting and interpersonal crime. (Quote by - Dan Paden)
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. (Quote by - Thomas B. Macaulay)
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. (Quote by - U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8)
The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
There would need to be evidence and a clear admission of guilt, whilst age, welfare and mental well-being of the victim would also be factors. (Quote by - John Yates)
I was just concerned about my own welfare. I hope this might prevent someone else from falling into this trap. (Quote by - Doris Williams)
The issue of horse welfare is of paramount concern for us. We regard this is as a very serious breach of the rules of racing. (Quote by - Des Gleeson)
All they have left is to smear the speaker because they can't solve Medicare, they can't solve welfare and they can't balance the budget. This is the last pathetic thing they've got, (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. (Quote by - Herman Kahn)
People who make careers out of helping others -- sometimes at great sacrifice, often not -- usually don't like to hear that those others might get along fine, might even get along better, without their help. (Quote by - John Holt)
The preliminary results show some improvements on the general welfare of the Namibian population. (Quote by - Helmut Angula)
The data show that, here in Missouri, we continue to fail to put the health and welfare of our children first. (Quote by - Beth Griffin)
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. (Quote by - William J. Wilson)
It is a self-proven fact that a person who thinks good of others and works for their welfare, his own progress is rapid and spectacular. Such people, by propagating knowledge pave the way of knowledge for one and all. (Quote by - Sam Veda)
The increase in the amount of land dedicated to welfare housing shows the government's commitment to low-income people. (Quote by - Lin Yueqin)
You never know, someone might challenge it, ... It's obviously an ordinance that's designed to protect the safety and welfare of the residents. It's not aimed at any one person, given the constraints of Megan's Law. (Quote by - Peter Nelson)
An active welfare state must provide a floor below which no one should be allowed to fall, but its primary role must be to enable people to provide for themselves. (Quote by - John Hutton)
I think if you want welfare reform in Europe, people are going to have to start taking some of that moral high ground and not simply just looking at the figures. (Quote by - Roderick Nye)
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. (Quote by - Eminem)
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. (Quote by - William Vickrey)
The condition and welfare of earthquake survivors remains a matter of serious concern for the UN and all other humanitarian partners on the ground. But we are vigilant, ready and prepared to assist. (Quote by - Ben Malor)
She had not threatened anyone, but other employees were concerned for her welfare. (Quote by - Randy Degasperin)
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Both players are dismissed for conduct detrimental to the welfare of the football team. (Quote by - Bobby Bowden)
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. (Quote by - Barbara Castle)
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
It's a middle-class welfare program for engineers. (Quote by - Richard Stubbing)
Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings. (Quote by - Lenny Goldberg)
Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs, (Quote by - Mohammad Khatami)
I'm more concerned about the long-term welfare of his wife and daughter if he has to go to Iraq. All indications are he will. (Quote by - Bill Clark)
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense. (Quote by - Paul Craig Roberts)
Child welfare is still such a mess. We need someone responsible for child welfare who answers directly to the governor. (Quote by - Susan Lambiase)
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? (Quote by - Paul Harvey)
Welfare and dependency grants, personal income tax relief, and cuts in those costs which would make housing more affordable for middle and low income earners are likely to buoy consumption expenditure, and manufacturing. (Quote by - Colen Garrow)
India remains committed to the establishment of good neighborly relations which will contribute to the welfare of the peoples of the two countries, (Quote by - Pervez Musharraf)
We're very concerned about the safety and welfare of the three soldiers, ... We've all seen their pictures. We don't like it. We don't like the way they were treated, and we have a long memory. (Quote by - Wesley Clark)
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements (Quote by - John Marshall)
The hope is to bring the animal welfare community together to see how possible it is. It's incredibly possible. (Quote by - Emily Jourdan)
If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens: Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions, or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet? (Quote by - Cat Farmer)
It's incumbent upon the Taliban to treat these people safely and fairly and to let us see after their welfare, (Quote by - Richard Boucher)
The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous. (Quote by - W. G. Hill)
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. (Quote by - Harriet Martineau)
It's nothing but a welfare program, and welfare programs generally don't work. Besides, we simply can't afford it. (Quote by - Don Reid)
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. (Quote by - John Hawley)
The lives of infected children are completely dependent on social welfare and support. (Quote by - Gu Yuan)
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States. (Quote by - US Agency for International Development)
