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I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale. -- Angus King
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare. -- Jim Fowler
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. -- Jonathan Mayhew
South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. -- Lysander Spooner
Private sincerity is a public welfare. -- C. A. Bartol
Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare. -- Wendy Kopp
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. -- Edmund Burke
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period. -- Chanakya
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. -- Evan Bayh
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom. -- Caspar Weinberger
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When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. -- John Kasich
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
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
Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare. -- Wesley K. Wark
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare -- Jonathan Mayhew

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