No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . ."

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic. . .

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.