Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
All movements go too far.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.