Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind

Ideas shape the course of history

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours

In the long run, we're all dead

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent