Quotes By Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.