Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.