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.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I don't care so much about what you can stand or what you can manage as I do about what you like and want to have. Those are the kinds of things I want to give you, because I'm crazy about you.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.