The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.