Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

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.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.