What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

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.

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.