#welfare

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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#dignity #each #ensure #individual #lives

The most important social welfare program in America is a job. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#important #job #most #program #social

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. ↗

— Harry Browne

#coming #country #death #fear #free

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#big #big brother #brother #husband #turn

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

#always #been #particular #people #tyrants

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#law #liberty #subject #subordinate #welfare

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half