If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

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

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

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

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Can you imagine life without a book?

Freedom is the liberation of my spirit and my soul from unpleasant condition.

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.