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William Beveridge Quotes: Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
         

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.


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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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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.

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.



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

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



Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

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.



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

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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