"Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals."

“Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.”

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

“The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.”

“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ...Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.”

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

“The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being--which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs--where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.”