It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.