The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

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

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

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.