On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

I look into my own black heart.