No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

- Clinton Rossiter

A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imagi…

- Clinton Rossiter

Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the Unite…

- Clinton Rossiter

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

- Clinton Rossiter

An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to pr…

- Clinton Rossiter

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

- Clinton Rossiter

The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-par…

- Clinton Rossiter

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myt…

- Clinton Rossiter

The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for…

- Clinton Rossiter