So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

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

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.