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

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.

Democracy is a meaningless word unless it signifies that differences of opinion have been expressed, represented, and even satisfied in the decision.

There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.

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