Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Welfare

The society that puts equality before freedom will wind up with neither. but the society that puts freedom before equality will wind up with a great measure of both.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American Economist

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
George Goodman (b.1930) American Economist, Author

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class
Frederick Douglass (1817–95) American Abolitionist, Author, Editor, Diplomat, Political leader

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live – not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American Political Writer, Publisher

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants
Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American Novelist

‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him… by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
Theodore Schultz (1902–98) American Economist

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Bainbridge Colby (1869–1950) American Politician

A socialist is somebody who doesn’t have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) American Polymath, Academic, Historian, Sociologist, Anthropologist

A man’s liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English Polymath, Philosopher, Sociologist, Political Theorist

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater (1909–98) American Elected Representative, Businessperson, Politician

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. … [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

Socialism means equality of income or nothing… under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by statuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will
George Goodman (b.1930) American Economist, Author

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.
Hugo Black (1886–1971) American Politician, Jurist

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy’s toils than out again
Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.
Dorothy Dix (1861–1951) American Journalist, Columnist

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.
Barack Obama (b.1961) American Head of State, Academic, Politician, Author

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so
George Goodman (b.1930) American Economist, Author

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits
Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher

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.
Andrew Johnson (1808–75) 17th American President

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation, to a little more of administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business; a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) English Philosopher, Economist

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) American Psychologist

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. … Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American Economist

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
Harry Browne (1933–2006) American Politician, Investor, Writer

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader

The object of war is to survive it.
John Irving (b.1942) American Novelist, Short-story Writer

Charity begins at home.
Common Proverb

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer

Envy is the basis of Democracy
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

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