In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.