#welfare

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin. ↗

— R.J. Rushdoony

#tithing #welfare #education

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not stakes. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting FOR THE RIGHT is DOING nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#freedom #moral-concern #morality #personal-investment #politics

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

#balance #bottom #civilized #else #founded

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#i #i see #only #people #see

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#child #clean #cover #good #ought

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. ↗

— Charles Evers

#i #i believe #lazy #makes #unproductive

I don't believe in welfare. ↗

— Charles Evers

#i #welfare

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#believe #creeds #expanding #people #races

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#eagerly #examine #fascism #few #german

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

— Nick Clooney

#beyond #congress #look #nation #office