If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
William BeveridgeThe state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
William BeveridgeThe object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
William BeveridgeIgnorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William BeveridgeOrganisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
William Beveridge