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William Beveridge quotes: Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

William Beveridge quotes: The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

William Beveridge quotes: A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

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

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

William Beveridge quotes: Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

William Beveridge quotes: If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

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

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

William Beveridge quotes: No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

William Beveridge quotes: There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

William Beveridge quotes: Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

William Beveridge quotes: I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

William Beveridge quotes: The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge quotes: Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

William Beveridge quotes: The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.