All these things conspired to give the Beveridge report its unstoppable moral force and political momentum.
The most obvious example was the unparalleled success of William Beveridge's official report on social insurance, published in 1942.
"The state in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, " Beveridge wrote.
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Player-coach Graeme Beveridge told BBC Radio Bristol it was a day to savour.
Mr Beveridge says the framework they have published could operate "from day one".
But the Beveridge legacy has also now turned into something sacred and universal, just as Beveridge predicted it would.
"It was the focal point of the original plan, " says Charles Beveridge, who has edited Olmsted's papers for 30 years.
When Beveridge published his blueprint for the welfare state in 1942, the Treasury hoped that pensions would be largely self-financing.
To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil - the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
He has been asked to demonstrate how coalition policy slays Beveridge's five.
Chairman Crawford Beveridge told me today that would be very hard on day one, as contracts, savings and loans would have to be re-denominated.
He sees his report as complementing the Independent Budget Review under Crawford Beveridge which, among many other things, questioned the universal provision of certain services.
New Labour prefers to stress that the intellectual architects of Attlee's reforms were John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, both members of the Liberal Party.
Alastair Beveridge, a partner at restructuring specialists Zolfo Cooper, said it would now be interesting to see what happened at Ford, the other member of the big three.
Whereas Beveridge envisaged the welfare state as an attack on five negative giants, the social investment state should have positive aims such as the reduction of environmental toxicity.
However, Beveridge also took an early interest in social reform.
William Beveridge - father of the modern welfare state - was a Liberal politician, after all, and there are elements in our system today historians agree he would not recognise.
Doug Beveridge, assistant chief executive of the National Federation of Fisherman's Organisations - a member of EFAG - said the Antwerp protest was the result of massive co-ordination between European fishermen.
Beveridge's own estimation of the report's significance was characteristic.
Then and there Lloyd George laid the foundations of the welfare state on which Labour later built a larger structure, according to the architecture of those two social liberals, Beveridge and Keynes.
Scrum-half Beveridge, who played for Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol during his professional career, earning six caps for Scotland, believes he will remember the success over their Newcastle-based opponents for the rest of his life.
With the fundraising has come higher debt-to-equity ratios, which will likely soar to an average of almost 50% for the three companies this year, Bernstein Research senior analyst Neil Beveridge said, from around 20% in 2007.
In Beveridge's time unemployment hovered about 2%.
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On Saturday, Mr Clegg will be paying homage to the left of his party, the social democratic group Social Liberal Forum, when he delivers the annual Beveridge lecture on the "five giant evils" - squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
Beveridge's system was about social insurance.
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As well as Mr Beveridge, who also chaired an independent commission for the Scottish government into public spending, the Fiscal Commission Working Group includes two winners of the Nobel economics prize, Joseph Stiglitz and Sir Jim Mirrlees, as well as Scottish economist Andrew Hughes-Hallett and Frances Ruane, an Irish expert in public finance.
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