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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

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

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

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