The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

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

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.