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.

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

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

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

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

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.