Pastoral Resources

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.

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

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.

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.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

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

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

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

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

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.

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

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

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.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.