The State in organising ...

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

Quotes from the same author

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
 William Beveridge
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
 William Beveridge