Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. – Karl Popper
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. – Karl Popper
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. – Karl Popper
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. – Karl Popper
I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will