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.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.