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

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.