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General Welfare Quotes

certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office.. Robert A. Heinlein
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare? a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute? was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart? the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves,... Leo Tolstoy
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Gouverneur Morris
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. Henry A. Wallace
Robert Casey quote: "To establish justice and to promote the general welfare,..."
To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. Robert Casey
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. Friedrich List
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. Friedrich List
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. Lascelles Abercrombie
Edmund Burke quote: "It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest..."
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Edmund Burke
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. George Bernard Shaw
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Charles Erwin Wilson
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. John Marshall Harlan
Edmund Burke quote: "It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest..."
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Edmund Burke
The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good. Henry Knox

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