I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife. - Gore Vidal

No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.

…the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader’s attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.