That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.