Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
“Thank you for inviting me here today " I said my voice sounding nothing like me. "I'm here to testify about things… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Our country is now at risk of forgetting the value of limited government. We are told bigger government is necessary for the… — Allen West 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
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
“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
To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. — Robert Casey 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
“The rule of law does not guarantee economic security, social status, or even minimal happiness to anyone. Thus it should not be… — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their… — Friedrich List 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
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
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 lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the… — 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
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.… — Jill Lepore 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
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
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
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant 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
For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in… — James Madison 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
“The Constitution says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
