Quotes from William Beveridge

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

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.

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

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

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