It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier..

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!.

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to….

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any m….

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to th….

A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate know….

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it..

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong..

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies..

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa..

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as ….

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later..

I believe in the honest craft of workmen..

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it..

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could n….

All cats are not gray after midnight..

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness..

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man..

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis..

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your pers….