Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.