Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. 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 I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

God created men to test the souls of women.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

He's an honest politician — he stays bought.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

"I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.