Public Welfare Quotes
31 quotes by 25 authors
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
— Amory Lovins
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Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as…
— William O. Douglas
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best…
— Sophocles
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Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind…
— Edward Bernays
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Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
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My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to…
— Patrick Henry
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The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of…
— Hugo Black
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Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
— Jim Fowler
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I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It…
— Lysander Spooner
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Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove…
— Jimmy Carter
Who Wrote These Public Welfare Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 31 Public Welfare Quotes as follows: