Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
It is the common wish of the people that the autocratic rule of the Manchu government be overthrown, that the Republic of… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community… — Mel Carnahan Copy Share Image
The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India. — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have… — John Hawley Copy Share Image
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them,… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt 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
That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
“To get a sense on the scale of this effort, consider that last year users collectively spent about 200 million hours each… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use some form of cash or non-cash… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide… — David Corn Copy Share Image
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image