politics
“I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.”
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex.”
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military–industrial complex.”
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
“What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth.”
“The Church in the colonies is a white man's Church, a foreigners' Church. It does not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the white man.”
“As soon as they are born it is obvious to them that their cramped world, riddled with taboos, can only be challenged by absolute violence.”
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman; the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
“Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.”
“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
“As for my politics, you will have guessed that I am not a Fascist.”
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”
“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
“Land, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.”
“Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
“Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.”
“Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”