The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

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

When all think alike, then no one is thinking