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“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.”

May Individual Nations Interest Members Checks Welfare Promoting Public Interest General Welfare

Book:Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie

Source: Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie

“Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.”

World War Nations Progress Team Modern Conditions Security Amount Members Achievement Prosperity Welfare Modern World Scientific Progress

Book:Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

“Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.”

People Children War Government Parent Forget Poverty Streets Members Caring Bridges Welfare Decent Our Society Efficient Household Frightening Wages Emergencies Garbage

Book:PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

Source: PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.”

“Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.”

People Community Views Depends Members Elements Eating Welfare Beast Agriculture Crops Herds

Author:David Petersen

“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.”

“No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.”

Results Members Increase Welfare Quantity Availability

Book:The Theory of Money and Credit

Source: The Theory of Money and Credit

“How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.”

States Three Loses Balance Members Trade British Access Welfare Fifty Agreement Behalf Spain Exit Free Trade Portugal Trade Agreements Health System

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

Giving Interest Community Existence Attention Society Duty Citizens Members Paid Police Welfare Law Enforcement Policemen Incumbents

Author:Robert Peel

“We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!”

Wells Causes Church Brother Goes On Victory Members Eternal Letters Welfare Prophet Stakes September Weary Thrill Brothers And Sisters Stride Lds Joseph Smith

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.”