Character Quote by J. Reuben Clark

Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The…

— Henry D. Moyle

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

The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well…

— William O. Douglas

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so…

— James A. Michener

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

— J. Oswald Sanders

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that,…

— Peter Singer

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the…

— Heber J. Grant

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and…

— Claudio Hummes

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

— Ronald Reagan

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

The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their…

— Marion G. Romney