Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.