The State must play an ever-widening part; it must, for example, ‘increasingly and earnestly concern itself with the care of the sick and the aged, and, above all, of the children’.
Martin Gilbert
The State must play an ever-widening part; it must, for example, ‘increasingly and earnestly concern itself with the care of the sick and the aged, and, above all, of the children’.
Sir Martin John Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust.
He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War.
