William Beveridge Quotes
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.