Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

All men are created unequal.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

An armed man need not fight.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

Men are not potatoes!

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.