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

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

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 man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

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.