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.

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

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

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

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.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.