Quotes About Welfare

In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.

I have a soft spot for charities that help children.

Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you're on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, you're not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work.

I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.

No one has ever taken a serious stab at reducing fraud and cheating in Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, earned income tax credits, and so on. Trump will.

Should Americans take care of their brothers and sisters? Absolutely. We all have an obligation as individuals to care for the poor. And, yes, there is a role for government and even food stamps in this equation.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

self-respect can encourage people to make the best of a bad job, but dependency on the state has destroyed the basis of self-respect.

compassion being measured by the amount of other people's money you are prepared to pay for the supposed resolution of a social problem.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

We Progressives believe that the people have the right and the duty to protect themselves and their own welfare; that human rights are supreme over all other rights; that wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. We believe that if representative government does not absolutely represent the people it is not representative government at all.

Through the General Land Office and other government bureaus, the public resources were being handled and disposed of in accordance with the small considerations of petty legal formalities, instead of for the large purposes of constructive development, and the habit of deciding, whenever possible, in favor of private interests against the public welfare was firmly fixed.

The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others' warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason's practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.