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William Beveridge

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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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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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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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

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