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

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

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

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

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

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

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.