An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

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

Flattery is all right—if you don’t inhale.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.