Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel

by Mark Cecil

When you’ve got the gun and gavel both, the truth is yours to shove around.

“Before a man’s ready, he can’t be moved. After a man’s ready, he can’t be stopped.”

“You know what makes a man’s man?” “What’s that?” “Doing whatever it takes. And sometimes that means being strong enough to say you’re weak.”

“Power doesn’t feel itself. Only the victim feels. Injustice doesn’t know itself. Only the victim knows. Between the tree and the axe, only the tree remembers.”