Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
William BeveridgeUnemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William BeveridgeThere is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.
William Beveridge