A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

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.

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

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.