The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.