“I would die for my country. But I’d rather kill for it. Ready your troops. We march!”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“I’ve met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“Not knowing one’s weaknesses gets people killed.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“There are always two sides to everything he says and does, just as there are two sides to Brude himself.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“the ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“Always ask why. It’s not enough to know the what of something.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
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“Men who live by robbing their fellow men of their labor and liberty have forfeited their right to know anything of the thoughts, feelings, or purposes of those whom they rob and plunder. They have by the single act of slaveholding voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, and have become only fitted for companionship with thieves and pirates - the common enemies of God and of all mankind.”
― Frederick Douglass, quote from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.”
― Francis Bacon, quote from Essays
“Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Collected Poems 1947-1997
“We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
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