To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.