Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.


Robert A. Caro

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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at on...
ROBERT A. COOK
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in...
ROBERT A. WARD
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
ROBERT A. COOK
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the m...
ROBERT A. SCHULLER
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added ...
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Summit or death, either way, I win.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN
To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, resp...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of go...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you sha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a c...
ROBERT A. JOHNSON
The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN