The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

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.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.