It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.