Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.