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

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.

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

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

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

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

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