William Beveridge

“Social security must be achieved by co-operation between the State and the individual.”

“Idleness is not the same as leisure; to be idle is not to be free.”

“A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.”

“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.”

“Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.”

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

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

“A starving man is not free because, until he is fed, he cannot have a thought for anything but how to meet his urgent physical needs.”

“Full employment... means having always more vacant jobs than unemployed men, not slightly fewer.”

“Liberty means more than freedom from the arbitrary power of governments. It means freedom from economic servitude to want and squalor.”

“The Plan for Social Security is first and foremost a method of redistributing income.”

“The essence of social security is giving for the future.”

“Organization of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress.”