A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common…

African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and…

— Maria W. Stewart

“The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of [their] safety.…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

— Friedrich List

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were…

— Charles Dickens

To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those…

— Henry George

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common…

— Barack Obama

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not…

— James Monroe

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of…

— Thomas Sowell

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money…

— Laurance Labadie

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

— Abraham Lincoln

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the…

— Dennis Prager

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader