Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me, 90 cents.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.