Welfare quotes

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◆ Only education can open the mind and the heart of man to achieve happiness, welfare and peaceful life.

- Vikrant Parsai100

◆ The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.

- Avram Noam Chomsky99

◆ If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

- George Westinghouse99

◆ We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ 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 Hurston99

◆ The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis99

◆ Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

- Jim Fowler99

◆ The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

- Jerry Brown99

◆ The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

- George Gilder99

◆ We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

- Louie Anderson99

◆ There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

- Barbara Castle99

◆ We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

- David Cameron99

◆ On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

- David Cameron99