Quotes About Welfare

The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

Giving money to individuals does little." "It does a lot," I said quietly, "for those people.

want by designing it for themselves. And innovation by users appears to increase social welfare. At the same time, the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful

So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.

It is hard to escape the general conclusion that economic performance, social opportunity and political voice are deeply interrelated.

Reagan told the press that he opposed family assistance: "I believe the government is supposed to promote the general welfare," Reagan said. "I don't believe it is supposed to provide it.

S]overeign power is nothing if it does not care for the welfare of others, and . . . it is the task of a good ruler to keep his power in check, to resist the passions of unbridled desire and implacable rage, and to realize that, as the dictator Caesar used to say, the recollection of past cruelty is a wretched provision for old age.

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

First of all, Doctor, I don't quite know what you mean by 'democratic principles.' Are you referring to the appalling lack of discipline and self-control I've observed on this station? The exaltation of individual freedom above the welfare of the group? The fact that the 'first among equals' in democratic society seem to get preference and privilege?

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.

People always want welfare, development, and good governance. As long as you are delivering, people are with you.

The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.

Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.

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.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

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 government should spend money earned through taxes on social welfare schemes, create infrastructure and in other priority areas, whether national security or providing good quality healthcare, education or water.

To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

I'm, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the authority of states to make the decisions to provide for its citizen - the safety and welfare of its citizens.