Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.