If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

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

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