Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

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

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

God created men to test the souls of women.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.