If you have had your foot on the neck of a man for three hundred years, and then take it off, do you expect him to get up and thank you?

If two men agree on everything, you can be sure one of them is doing the thinking.

If you let a bully come into your garden one day, the next day he'll be up on your porch, and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.