There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.