Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions. - H. Beam Piper

Oh, he won't think of it in those terms. He'll be preventing me from sabotaging the Emancipation. He doesn't want to wait three generations; he wants to free them at once. Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

For each man the world ends when he dies.

A planet could take pretty good care of itself, he thought, if people would only leave it alone.