William Beveridge Quotes

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

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Dove

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Together
  • Nature

• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • She
  • Girl

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Window

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

  

  Mae West
  • Life
  • Men
  • My Life

• War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

  

  Alfred Hermann Fried
  • War
  • Anarchy
  • Symptom

• It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Difference
  • Mortality
  • Estimates

• I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Care

• 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
  • Men
  • War
  • Common