The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.