Top 33 Beveridge Quotes
#1. Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.
Evelyn Waugh
#2. [Beveridge] was a driven man, right to the end; his last words, enunciated clearly from his death bed at the age of eighty-four, showed that the aging social reformer was still haunted by the memory of those sick men on the East London streets. 'I have a thousand things to do,' he said, and died.
T.R. Reid
#3. I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
Neville Marriner
#4. A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
William Beveridge
#5. Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#6. The State, in organizing security 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.
William Beveridge
#7. There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.
William Beveridge
#8. If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
William Beveridge
#9. I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.
William Beveridge
#10. There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
William Beveridge
#11. It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
Albert J. Beveridge
#12. Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
Albert J. Beveridge
#13. Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#14. No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
William Beveridge
#15. The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.
William Beveridge
#16. Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#17. The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
Albert J. Beveridge
#18. Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
#19. Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
#20. Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
#21. 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
#22. When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#23. And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.
Albert J. Beveridge
#24. He takes another bite of the hairy fruit and marvels how the bullet from his Winchester did to her head what his teeth did to her kiwi.
Laurence Beveridge
#25. Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#26. Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.
Sean Patrick
#28. Faith in one's self unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that few of us use.
Albert J. Beveridge
#29. 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
#30. The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
William Beveridge
#31. He has made us the master organizers of the world ... to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth ... This is the divine mission of America ... We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]
Albert J. Beveridge
#32. Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
William Beveridge
#33. Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Beveridge
