We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.
I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
To be credible we must be truthful.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
A satellite has no conscience.
We’re not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn’t be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.