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

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.