A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.