Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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