There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk โhis life, his fortune and his sacred honorโ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
Robert A. HeinleinSecrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Robert A. HeinleinDemocracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Robert A. HeinleinA competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein