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.

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 news and the truth are not the same thing.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

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