Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

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

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

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

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.