I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

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!

It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.