War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decis….

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain..

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract..

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ….

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you..

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dis….

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic ….

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

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once..

Everybody lies about sex..

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat..

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss..

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working..

There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the deca….

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn abou….

Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, o….

Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that peopl….

Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Fe….

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated..

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way..