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> [Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein-2/anyone-who-clings-to-the-historically-untrue-and-thoroughly-immoral-2/)

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## More by Robert A Heinlein

> [I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein-2/i-am-free-because-i-know-that-i-alone-am-morally-responsible-for-2/)

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> [A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein-2/a-great-artist-can-look-at-an-old-woman-portray-her-exactly-as-she-is/)

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> [One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein-2/one-man-s-religion-is-another-man-s-belly-laugh/)

[Robert A Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein-2/)

> [Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein-2/anyone-who-clings-to-the-historically-untrue-and-thoroughly-immoral-2/)

[Robert A Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein-2/)

> [A competent and self confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a sympton of neurotic insecurity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein-2/a-competent-and-self-confident-person-is-incapable-of-jealousy-in-3/)

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