Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

History is full of surprises.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.