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

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.

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

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.

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

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