Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.