Fight Quote by Jeremy Kyle

Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has…

— Guy Standing

The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest,…

— Martin Durkin

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a…

— Barry Eichengreen

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were…

— Liam Fox

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system…

— Emily Thornberry

Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely…

— John McDonnell

“The pre-Thatcher state had functioned on the understanding that there was such a thing as society. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic had…

— J.M.R. Higgs

“Franklin D. Roosevelt became the architect of the American welfare state. However, Roosevelt was concerned that the institution he was fostering would not live…

— Nima Sanandaji

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

— Voltaire

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

— Liam Fox

“For anyone born after 1945, the welfare state and its institutions were not a solution to earlier dilemmas: they were simply the normal conditions…

— Tony Judt