Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

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.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.