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. - Sir William Henry Beveridge (1879 - 1963)
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平時戦時を問わず政治が掲げるべき目標は、支配者や一族の名を高めることではなく、名もなき人の幸福にある。 - ウィリアム・ヘンリー・ビヴァリッジ (1879 - 1963)
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![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640-100x75.jpg)