I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.