William Beveridge Quotes

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• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
• Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
• The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.
• 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 State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action…
• Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
• 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.
• There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
• The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
• Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
• Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam

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