General Welfare Quotes

33 quotes by 24 authors

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour… — Annie Besant
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of… — David Ramsey
The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By… — Andrew Napolitano
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that… — Abraham Lincoln
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them… — James Madison
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the… — James Madison
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… — Thomas Jefferson
I consider itâ€¦as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Governmentâ€¦and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to… — James Madison
Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do… — Julius Sterling Morton
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on… — Lascelles Abercrombie
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to… — Frederick Douglass
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,… — Gouverneur Morris
But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly,… — Larry Elder
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in… — Calvin Coolidge
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very… — James Madison
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing… — Thomas Jefferson
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading… — Ed Crane

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