The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
![“For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza…” quote by Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/913/hilaire-belloc-2294_book_for-no-one-in-our-long-decline-so-dusty_140002.jpg)
