Quotes from Heinlein Robert A.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Between two evils, I choose the one I've never tried before.

I don't pay any attention to politics. You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat. I don't pay any attention to that either.

and he has never given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door into Summer. You know, I think he is right.

it doesn't count, like time spent in Brooklyn

Despite the crapehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian? The difference, I answered carefully, lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.