'Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.
A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises—which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum.
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society. If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance.
Great dangers always accompany great opportunities. The possibility of destruction is always implicit in the act of creation. Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
If you start with nothing, demand 100%, then compromise for 30%, you’re 30% ahead.
It is the schizophrenia of a free society that we outwardly espouse faith in the people but inwardly have strong doubts whether the people can be trusted.
Men must change with the times or die.
Parts of the far left have gone so far in the political circle that they are now all but indistinguishable from the extreme right.
The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.
The organizer knows that it is a human characteristic that someone who asks for help and gets it reacts not only with gratitude but with a subconscious hostility toward the one who helped him.
The power of a gun may be used to enforce slavery, or to achieve freedom.
You can miss the target by shooting too high as well as too low.