The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.