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

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

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.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.