The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

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

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

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 self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking