Into the Light (Out of the Dark, #2)

by David Weber

It was his job to save them, and he couldn’t do it, and dying himself would have been easy compared to that.

“It’s always way too easy to fall in love with your own impeccable logic.”

component it’s running. And just to be sure

the one thing that couldn’t be disputed about capital punishment was that it had a very low rate of recidivism.

‘The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of Liberty,’

‘Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings; they are beasts. You are free; they are slaves. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.

In his opinion, a lot of them were from the side of the mental tracks which just had to prove its superiority by adopting a contrarian position. That, after all, demonstrated their intellectual fearlessness and willingness to think outside the box.

the one virtue of pessimism was that any surprises would be pleasant ones.

one of the few immutable rules is that stupidity is ultimately its own punishment.”

Round these parts, we do stupid in a whole ’nother way. I can’t quite decide whether our people’s motto should be ‘Hey, y’all! Watch this!’ or ‘Somebody hold mah beer!’”

history demonstrates that it’s a lot easier to shoot people than ideas.

“I’m not sure we’re up against ideas as much as bigotry, intolerance, hatred, personal ambition, and megalomania,” Dvorak replied in measured tones. “Of course, history also demonstrates that it’s a lot easier to shoot people than any of those things, either.”

Opponents who thought about things made far more formidable foes than those who simply charged in.

I do understand the need to do ‘subtle’ from time to time. You can’t always fix things just by breaking them into tinier pieces.

he didn’t really care where the chips were falling as long as the damned tree got cut down.