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.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

Responsibility cannot be shared.

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.