"For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on my mind was devastating. S...
Secrecy begets tyranny.
More Robert A. Heinlein quotes
"Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
"…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.
"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians ...
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerabl...
"If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because ...
"The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies through...
"Freedom is a hard habit to break.
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds...
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all ot...
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be o...