Let us proportion our alms to ...

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
 William Beveridge

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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 in organising 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 the minimum for himself and his family.
 William Beveridge