“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

“She might say: “This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there — What’s your name? You, with the goatee — out and shoot him. Do it now.”--Glory Road; Heinlein”

“An armed society is a polite society.”

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”

“A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.”

“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.”