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.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.