We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.