“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”

“A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.”

“When a person is miserable, wretched, and unhappy in himself, put him in what circumstances you please, and he is wretched still. If a person is poor, and composes his mind, and calmly submits to the providence's of God, he will feel cheerful and happy in all circumstances, if he continues to keep the commandments of God.”

“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.”

“The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.”

“the most wretched person is one who does not have self-control”