Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.