Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“We may suggest that a nation is in effect any assembly, mixture, or confusion of people which is either afflicted by or… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners… — Tahl Raz Copy Share Image
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Constitution authorizes Congress to tax Americans to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. But in Washington, the… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
“Kit had hardly known Esme for no more than a single day; and yet, he mourned for her past injustices, greatly. For… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Official dogma had ranked the merchants below other commoners because they did not produce anything. Like the samurai they lived off the… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
