Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.

...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip.

Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.