Posted 23 October 2005 - 09:08 PM
"Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness." - William Beveridge
"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
"Beveridge had combined his long-standing commitment to contributory insurance - to build moral fibre and to prevent a new means test - with a new commitment to the state providing a national minimum," – Jose Harris (Beveridge’s biographer)
"Socialism was for Labour a symbol sufficiently vague to be impervious to mere day to mere day to day policies and events." – M. Pugh
"Ideology was subservient to the important tasks of organising electoral success." – A. Ball
"…[events after 1914 allowed Labour to] inherit the mantle of radicalism and to rally middle class and working class progressives under its wing." – M. Pugh
"The Luftwaffe was a powerful missionary for the welfare state." – AJP Taylor
"The overall impact of the war was to increase the dependence of many even among the better-off on state services…" - Bartlett
"The war was to have decisive influence in producing a common experience and universal treatment for it." - Fraser
"…[social security reform] constituted a major inroad into the principle of universality…" - Heb
"…[the NHS is] the greatest single achievement in the story of the welfare state." - Birch
"…[the Education Act] made secondary modern schools inferior to the grammar school in that they offered their children fewer opportunities" - Seaman
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i don't really know if i am doing this right because i am just new, but i am looking for some quotations for a Labour essay. i haven't been given any textbooks out because i am re-sitting higher history this year without going into class. it sucks!!!!
