Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

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.

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.