He Warned Us
The founding fathers were pretty sharp. Painting: Washington as President, by Gilbert Stuart (1795).
The founding fathers were pretty sharp. Painting: Washington as President, by Gilbert Stuart (1795).
Heinlein was not “just” a writer: in 1980 he was a member of the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy….
The quote is from Heinlein’s 1973 book Time Enough for Love, which has another gem that’s right up my alley: “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher, and Christian apologist.
Saramonowicz (1965– ) is a Polish director, actor, journalist and screenwriter. (Photo: Saramonowicz in 2015, CC2.0 by Fryta 73 on Flickr, cropped.)
Ricardo Montalbán in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Khan liked to quote Melville.
A French author, Gide (1869-1951) won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
An old friend of mine, Jerry could be really profound. He was speaking of my site HeroicStories. Another of his quotes…
An Irish reporter’s take on the British Royal Family after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, went public with why they left the U.K.
Another Durantism: “Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.” — and he ought to know.