. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

My childhood was appalling.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.