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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
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William Beveridge
Age: 84 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 5
Died: 1963
Died: March 16
Economist
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William Henry Beveridge
William Henry Beveridge
1st Baron Beveridge
W. H. Beveridge
William H. Beveridge
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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There 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.
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Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
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There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
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The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.
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If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
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