Robert A. Heinlein Quotes:
Ocupation: Science writer
Life: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
Birthday: July 7
Death: May 8
Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.
source: "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.
topic: Children, Men, Long, Expendables
