“The Budget, and the policy of the Budget, is the first conscious attempt on the part of the State to build up a better and a more scientific organization of society for the workers of this country.”

—  Winston S. Churchill

The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), pp. 146-147
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