The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.
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If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt
If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
