“…certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare. — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
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
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson 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
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Crime associated with our border is a serious threat to the general welfare of real citizens, and after all, isn't it the… — Charlie Kirk 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
“Late-sleeping Utopians, especially, persist like mercury. I am a fanatic myself, although not a woman of temperament. I get nervous at scenes.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's… — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution… — James Madison 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
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
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
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 whole village has been drunk for the last three days. And as for feast days, it is simply horrible to think… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The new Constitution will promote the “general” welfare, not welfare varying by condition or by place of residence. It will secure our… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
