1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can’t think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don’t.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.

If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.

Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America – and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

Audacity, always audacity – soundest principal of strategy.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don’t know why.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That’s a personal evaluation, of course.

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.