“Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.”

“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

“Democracies accept certain risks that tyrannies do not”

“The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.”

“The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny.”