Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

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

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.