The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

The 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.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.