The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.