Sidney Webb

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”

“The inevitability of gradualness.”

“The problem to be solved is not how to abolish the capitalist, but how to make him the servant of the community.”

“The national minimum of civilised life, is, in a sense, the most important of all the general principles of social reform.”

“The necessary basis of society is the guarding of the <strong class="highlight">weakstrong> against the strong.”

“A policy of laissez-faire is a policy of drifting.”

“To the Socialist, the community is an organism, not a mere aggregation of individuals.”

“The first step towards the solution of any social problem is to state it.”

“The State should be the conscious and deliberate organ of the common will.”

“Individual liberty is not the end of social organisation, but its means.”

“The whole nation is sick of the pretensions of the plutocracy, and would welcome a government which was manifestly competent and disinterested.”

“Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is a way of life.”