If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.