A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.