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 very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.
William BeveridgeUnemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
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 Beveridge