Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

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.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.