The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

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 search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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.