The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

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.

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.