No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter..

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

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

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..

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms..

Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed ma….

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

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

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude..

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vi….

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

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….

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 sec….

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

The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room an….

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

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