There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

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. . .

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.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much