Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

An armed man need not fight.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)