Quotes About Welfare

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

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It grieves me ofttimes to see poor souls, that have a zeal for God and a desire of eternal welfare, kept by such directors and directions under a hard, burdensome, outside worship and service of God, with many specious endeavours for mortification, in an utter ignorance of the righteousness of Christ, and unacquaintedness with his Spirit, all their days.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society; and that if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the State ought to see it fulfilled, at the charge, as far as possible, of the parent.

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.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.

Don't you begin to see in this behavior that animals sacrifice themselves for the welfare of other types of life, instead of trying to eat as much as possible merely for their own existence or upkeep? The more one studies the behavior of animals and of plants, the more clearly one sees that they have a task to perform for the welfare of the whole.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Real freedom must include economic security.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.