Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.