"The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though."
— David Drake (The Voyage)

"History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity."
— David Drake (Patriots)

"Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…"
— David Drake (The Sharp End)

"Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption."
— David Drake (With the Lightnings)