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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

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

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

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

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.

And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.