You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

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

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

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.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.