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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

We should exit Iraq now. (The US' longest running talk show host on June 29).

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Capitalism depends on the manipulation of or creation of scarcity. Capitalist societies promote animal flesh consumption yielding 100 to 1000 lbs. per acre rather than fruit products which yield 400,000 to 900,000 lbs. per acre. Meat and capitalism go together. Fruit and freedom go together.