Welfare Quotes

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

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

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

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.

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

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

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

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

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.