All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.