We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

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

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.