The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that… — William Beveridge Copy Share
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
