Lord William Beveridge Famous 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."


Lord William Beveridge Quotations






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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
George Santayana

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush

"Reuben Second most successful robbery. The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him. Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. God damn hippy."
Ocean s Eleven

"I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
Jewel

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

"You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.'"
Peggy Noonan

"If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you."
Nikita Khrushchev

"The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
James Arthur Baldwin

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke