Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.