There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

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

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.