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

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

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

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

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

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

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