Quotes about Welfare
In particular, we must observe this general rule, that we cordially desire and labor for the welfare of the whole human race. Thus it will come to pass, that we shall not only give way to the exercise of God's mercy, but shall also wish the conversion of those who seem obstinately to rush upon their own destruction. In
- John Calvin
The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
- Ronald Reagan
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.
- Aristotle
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants
- Albert Camus
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued.
- Alexander Hamilton
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
- William Wilberforce
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?
- Ezra Taft Benson
Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
- Ezra Taft Benson