Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

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

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

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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.

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

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.