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- No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
- A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- Robert A. Heinlein
- The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
- Robert A. Heinlein
- If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Jubal E. Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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