For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.