The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

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

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.