Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

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

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

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.