"We felt proud and exultant to arrive with the Jewish flag at our mast. The refugees looked for the first time upon th…"

"There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this m…"

"Professor Einstein would not have liked a stuffy tribute. My wife and I loved him. He was a charter subscriber to the…"

"Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda."

"I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" — the bit of d…"

"The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen…"

"A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements."

"Lifelong dissent has more than acclimated me cheerfully to defeat. It has made me suspicious of victory. I feel uneas…"

"I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness …"

"I need not dwell upon the authenticated horrors of the Nazi internment camps and death chambers for Jews. That is not…"