All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.