The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

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

My literary success meant nothing to me

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

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.

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

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.