General welfare Quote by Adam Smith

“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable…

— Victor Hugo

“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but”

— Amor Towles

“That was the great misconception about men: because they dealt with money, because they could hire someone on and later fire him, because they…

— Michael McDowell

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become…

— C. Wright Mills

“There is a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the…

— Napoleon Hill

“It was a sad truth that all the masses of men in their causes would be led by ambitious men, by power-hungry, cunningly self…

— Oakley Hall

“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them to make…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“They intended to found and frame a government for man, and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all; to prevent…

— Susan Jacoby

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of…

— George W. S. Trow

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

“Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted…

— Edmund Burke