Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 449 |
| AUTHOR: | Elfan B. Rees (1906–78) |
| QUOTATION: | It is some time since so few have been asked to do so much for so many on so little. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Dr. Rees, secretary of the United Nations Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, was speaking of the U. N. budget designated to assist World War II refugees. |
| SUBJECTS: | Doing |