When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.