Quotes About Welfare

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.