Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

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

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.