Quotes about Welfare
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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.
- Stephen Colbert
Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.
- Ronald Reagan
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
Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
- 1 Samuel 17:18
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
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Isaiah 38:17
Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
- Jeremiah 15:5
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- Amos 8:6
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- 1 Timothy 5:8
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
- Cicero