A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

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.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

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