The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
From Walter Lippmann
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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