1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius...

If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.