If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
William BeveridgeThe human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
William BeveridgeIgnorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William BeveridgeFull 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 BeveridgeWant is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
William BeveridgeAny proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.
William Beveridge