Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.