The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.