Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.