We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.