Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done.

A generation that ignores history has no past and no future.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

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

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

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

Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.