When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
The news and the truth are not the same thing.
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.