What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.