1. “Nature is neutral. Man has wrestled from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.”
2. “The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.”
3. “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
4. “A hungry man is not a free man.”
5. “Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
6. “He who slings mud generally loss ground.”
7. “Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
8. “Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
9. “Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.”
10. “Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.”
11. “You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
12. “The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”
13. “We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present”
14. “On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
15. “That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
16. “Flattery is all right o long as you don’t inhale.”
17. “Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
18. “To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.”
19. “A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conversation.”
20. “I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
21. “Freedom rings where opinions clash.”
22. “Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.”
23. “A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”
24. “Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
25. “We have confused the free with the free and easy.”
26. “Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
27. “Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
28. “Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”
29. “The first principle of a free society is an untrampled flow of words n an open forum.”
30. “What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.”
