Quotes of Note: H. Beam Piper, "Little Fuzzy" II

Quotes of note from Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper:

(Page numbers gleaned from the 1983 eighth printing of the Ace mass-market paperback.)

"Anything that talks and builds a fire is a sapient being, yes. That's the law. But that doesn't mean that anything that doesn't isn't." (p. 36) 

"The less he had to do with the government, the better... ." (p. 71)