John F. Kennedy Quotes About Welfare

• If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Believe, School

  John F. Kennedy's Address upon Accepting the Liberal Party Nomination for President, New York, New York, www.jfklibrary.org. September 14, 1960.

• I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.

  John F. Kennedy

  Agency, Health Education, Equal Pay

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

• Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Welfare, Abstract

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.548, Best Books on

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