Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
Robert A. HeinleinIf you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Robert A. HeinleinI'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.
Robert A. HeinleinIn past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Robert A. Heinlein