Welfare Quotes - Page 19

• The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

  Larry Burkett

  Years, Black, Slavery

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• To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.

  Robert Higgs

  Past, Government, Hands

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• What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

  Ernesto Zedillo

  Numbers, Issues, What If

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• If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, United States, May

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• I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate and selfish use and enjoyments, the produce of their own industry, with power freely to dispose of the whole of that in the manner most agreeable to themselves, as essential to the welfare and even to the continued existence of society.

  Thomas Hodgskin

  Philosophy, Selfish, Political

  Thomas HODGSKIN (1832). “The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted. A Series of Letters Addressed, Without Permission, to H. Brougham, Esq., ... by the Author of “Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital.” [T. Hodgskin. Each Letter Subscribed, “Labourer.”]”, p.24

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• The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Children, Government, Abuse

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• Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.

  Andy Burnham

  Animal, Balance, Research

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• The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

  Richard Wexler

  Children, Adoption, Only Child

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• I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution, you may then discover, to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting, though perhaps difficult, problem children, for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose, to the end of your days.

  Karl Popper

  Falling In Love, Children, Philosophy

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• Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Health, Free Education, Care

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• I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Animal, Rights

  "Getting from A to Z: Why Animal Activists Should Support Incremental Reforms to Help Animals" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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• The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Animal, Rights

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• Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

  Gary L. Francione

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

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• KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Animal, Years, Two

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• Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.

  Nahmanides

  Spiritual, Pain, Moving

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• If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.

  Russell Brand

  Animal, Meat, Vegetarian

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• A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

  Cass Sunstein

  People, Program, Produce

  "America Senses Something's Not Right" By Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.

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• The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

  Fredrik Reinfeldt

  Choices, Needs, Individual

  "Profile: Fredrik Reinfeldt". news.bbc.co.uk. September 18, 2006.

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• Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.

  Leander Perez

  Passion, Animal, Easy

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• It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

  Nick Clooney

  Office, Looks, Administration

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• A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice

  "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal".

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• When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Change, War, President

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.

  Larry Elder

  Retirement, Father, Government

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• Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Slavery Today, Vines

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