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.
Robert A. HeinleinLiberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
Robert A. HeinleinWith eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
Robert A. HeinleinIf a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
Robert A. HeinleinThe future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.
Robert A. Heinlein