Re: I know this is Sci-Fi but....
Edgar Rice was absolutely a Head of his time. I am glad I did not run across him before Robert A. Heinlein.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
http://books.google.com/books?id=gRaVvJSqulAC&dq=edgar+rice+burroughs+warlord+of+mars&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=H8vHjfKW9q&sig=M65o6_rwmH43aQTVRAC-F_y1TMU#v=onepage&q=&f=false