The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?"

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.