Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

Without the rich - without those who accumulated capital - those poor who could exist at all would be very much poorer indeed, scratching a livelihood from marginal lands on which every drought would kill most of the children they would be trying to raise.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength for socialism which traditional liberalism sadly lacks. Speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life. Their ideas suffer from inherent contradictions, and any attempt to put them into practice must produce something utterly different from what they expect.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.