The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.