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 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.

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.

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

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