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William Beveridge Quotes: The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
         

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.


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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.

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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.



Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.



No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.



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I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.



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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.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.



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If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.





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