An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.