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

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.

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.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.