There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

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

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.