The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.