In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

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.

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