Welfare Quotes

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. (Edmund Burke)
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. View quote
William Howard Taft
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. View quote
Noam Chomsky
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. View quote
William Graham Sumner
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare. View quote
David Dinkins
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income. View quote
Simon Kuznets
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. View quote
Gregory Benford
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. View quote
Helen Keller
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. (Sophocles)
How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them? View quote
Carl Menger
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others. View quote
DeForest Kelley
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and 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." View quote
Carl Schurz
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. View quote
William Vickrey
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you. View quote
Charles Evers
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. View quote
Charles Evers
I don't believe in welfare. View quote
Charles Evers
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. (Todd Tiahrt)
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. View quote
William Robertson Smith
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say