“We have everything for a still; I stocked the items to build one if a war came along—not just for us but because liquor is money in any primitive society.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 10 (p. 145)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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