Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed ma… - William Beveridge
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed ma…
- William Beveridge
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. - William Beveridge
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. - William Beveridge
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
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. - William Beveridge
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.
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. - William Beveridge
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. - William Beveridge
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. - William Beveridge
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. - William Beveridge
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room an… - William Beveridge
The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room an…
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