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• The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant
• When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to… — Unknown Author
• 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
• We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we… — Abraham Lincoln
• With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with 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… — James Madison
• It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject… — James Madison
• Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained… — Thomas Jefferson
• 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
• 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
• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age… — Lascelles Abercrombie
• One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass

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