Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
Robert A. HeinleinDemocracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
Robert A. HeinleinA woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Robert A. HeinleinIt seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
Robert A. Heinlein