10 quotes
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
Voluntary Action (1948)
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.
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Full Employment in a Free Society (1944)
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership 'til they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience.
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress.
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
The State ... should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.