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.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

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

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.