The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

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.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

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

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.