A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

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

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

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

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.