Quotes About Welfare

Others noted the 'Indian's' reluctance ever to let anyone fall into a condition of poverty, hunger or destitution. It was not so much that they feared poverty themselves, but rather that they found life infinitely more pleasant in a society where no one else was in a position of abject misery

They will care about our business only to the extent that we care about their overall welfare.

Planning and control are being attacked as a denial of freedom. Free enterprise and private ownership are declared to be essentials of freedom. No society built on other foundations is said to deserve to be called free. The freedom that regulation creates is denounced as unfreedom; the justice, liberty and welfare it offers are decried as a camouflage of slavery.35 The

We see one of the major principles of our welfare system today at work as Joseph distributes food supplies in Egypt. Rather than merely giving the grain out, which promotes waste, he still had the people pay for it, which helps eliminate waste and lack of appreciation

I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves, and I realized that using anyone's tragedy for political gain was cowardly.

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

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

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.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

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.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.