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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law." »Cicero
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"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)" »Cicero
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"Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense." »Richard Dawkins
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"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation." »Lord Robert Baden-Powell
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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 for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles
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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 for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards
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"If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people." »Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
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"To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity." »John Comenius
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha
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"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." »Benoit Mandelbrot
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"The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves." »Jefferson Davis
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"No one should be judge in his own case." »Publilius Syrus
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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." »Mortimer Adler
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"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark." »Nicholson Baker
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"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest." »Conan Doyle
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"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." »Barbara Stanwyck
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"What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question" »Gertrude Stein
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"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins." »Karl Barth
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"You know why there's a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one." »Rush Limbaugh
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"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity." »George Stanley McGovern
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"In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy." »Legal Proverb
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"A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands." »Sacha Guitry
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." »Woody Allen
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"Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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