Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.