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
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
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
“…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
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
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
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
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan 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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare. — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to… — David Ramsey Copy Share Image
I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work. — Ludwig von Mises 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
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
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
