Quotes: Charity

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.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let’s-take-care-of-one-another. That’s the creative challenge.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.