The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been. —Enid Healy

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

There's no medical term for what I've got.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.