Welfare Quotes
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I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.
Michael Eric Dyson
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
Gaby Hoffmann
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
Carles Puigdemont
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When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
Linda Chavez
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.
Mark Steyn
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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
Simon Kuznets
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It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.
Antony C. Sutton
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Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
Daniel Schorr
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Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
Anthony Daniels
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Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
James Cook
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From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
William Inge
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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
Mark Steyn
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Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.
Dalai Lama
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
William Jennings Bryan
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Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.
Mark Steyn
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The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.
John Ensign
