A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.