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

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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