It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

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

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

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

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.