Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

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