Envy is the basis of democracy.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

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

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.

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

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 am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.