I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods