Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked

with as one would work with any other part of our populations -- with respect, understanding, and sympathy.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Dogma, whatever form it takes, is the ultimate enemy of human freedom.

You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.