There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

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 smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.