A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

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.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.