Quotes about Welfare
The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.
— Ronald Reagan
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
— Ronald Reagan
And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.
— Esther 2:11
Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals
— Mahatma Gandhi
Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
— Thomas a Kempis
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
— Abraham Lincoln
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants
— Albert Camus
The government," he told me one night, "is there to act as a safety net, not a candy machine.
— Glenn Beck
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
— Deuteronomy 24:14