No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.


Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.


One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.


Slow help is no help.


So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.


The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.


The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.


The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.


The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.


There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.


These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.


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.


To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.


To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.


We all need each other.


We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.


We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.


We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.


When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.


Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

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