William Beveridge

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

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

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

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