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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
