Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

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.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.