“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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.”
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
“Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]”
“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.”
“The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.”
“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”
“Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny”
“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
Various quotes of Robert Heinlein, used without endorsement, or permission, of the Heinlein estate.
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