The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.