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

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.

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.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

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

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

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