Uncompromising Honor (Honor Harrington, #14)

by David Weber

“one day we’ll all be in the history books and some idiot child—just like the idiot children you and I were, once upon a time—will dream about how exciting and glorious it all must have been. Maybe they’ll be luckier than we are and not find out how wrong they are.”

May my son never fear he's lost his democracy.

the Articles of War themselves both require a serving officer to refuse an illegal order and specifically state that that obligation applies in time of war just as it does in peacetime.”

Never apologize for grief. For honoring the memory of people you’ve lost by admitting how much they meant to you when you had them.”