A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge, #3)

by Ken Follett

Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.

In the world of kings and courtiers, Ned had learned, no one told all of the truth all of the time.

Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called ‘policy’, and people who did it were ‘politicians

‘Our work isn’t finished.’ ‘Perhaps it never will be, until the Last Trump.’