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There Is No Inherent Mechanism In Our Present System Which Can With Certainty Prevent Competitive Sectional Bargaining For Wages From Setting Up A Vicious Spiral Of Rising Prices Under Full Employment.

No One Believes An Hypothesis Except Its Originator But Everyone Believes An Experiment Except The Experimenter.

Want Is One Only Of Five Giants On The Road Of Reconstruction; The Others Are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, And Idleness.

Organisation Of Social Insurance Should Be Treated As One Part Only Of A Comprehensive Policy Of Social Progress. Social Insurance Fully Developed May Provide Income Security; It Is An Attack Upon Want. But Want Is One Only Of Five Giants On The Road Of Reconstruction And In Some Ways The Easiest To Attack. The Others Are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor And Idleness.

Full Employment Does Not Mean Literally No Unemployment; That Is To Say, It Does Not Mean That Every Man And Woman In The Country Who Is Fit And Free For Work Is Employed Productively Every Day Of His Or Her Working Life ... Full Employment Means That Unemployment Is Reduced To Short Intervals Of Standing By, With The Certainty That Very Soon One Will Be Wanted In One's Old Job Again Or Will Be Wanted In A New Job That Is Within One's Powers.