Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. … - William Beveridge

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William Beveridge

Organisation 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.

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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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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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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

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