Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

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.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

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

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.