Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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