By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
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.
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.
Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.
State and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.
By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'
Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
The rabbis will find in me personally someone who cares about their future and welfare.
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
