Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

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 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.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.