I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negro…

I have come across men of letters who have written history without taking part in public affairs, and politicians who have concerned themselves with producing …

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be h…

I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the present.

'Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants a…

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.