The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)