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

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

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

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

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

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

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!