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.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

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.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.