Journalist Quotes

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.

That which is not just is not law.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.