Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

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

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.