Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.

The great art of making war is to live at the expense of the enemy.

In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

It is true that the vast majority of gun deaths in America are not the consequence of the use of an 'assault weapon.' But that begs the question of whether assault weapons have any real utility either in terms of any sporting or self protection needs.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

I read in self-defense.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people, by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.