Peter Maurer Quotes

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Ours is an individualistic society, indeed, and the state must do for the individual what the family does for the older civilizations.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.

The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot.

People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.

The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves

Alone I can do nothing.

One man will carry two buckets of water for his own use, Two men will carry one for their joint use; Three men will carry none for anybody's use.

Last year in the United States alone over $98 billion was distributed in unearned government transfer payments and other aid to millions of men and women who most often did nothing for what they received. This character-weakening government dole is repeated in almost every nation of the world. We encourage Latter-day Saints everywhere to remain free of government assistance. Work for what you receive.

We have not abandoned our old belief in liberty, justice, and Self-help, but we say that under certain conditions the people cannot help themselves, and that then they should be helped by the State representing directly the whole people.

The plain matter-of-fact is, our good people have rushed to the rescue of the Government, faster than the government can find arms to put in their hands.... We know you do all as wisely and well as you can; and you will not be deceived if you conclude the same is true of us.

Concerned in all things for the welfare of all its members, Society undertakes to provide work to the industrious and support for the needy. The ‘willing idle’ shall have no claim on it.