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“All roads lead to Amber," he said, as though it were an axiom.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

“there is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Many Antifederalists additionally favored prohibiting Congress from disarming the people, warning that once the national government monopolized military force, it would rule supreme and the states would be destroyed”
― Michael J. Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution

“Mason also objected that permitting the president to grant pardons even in cases of treason was dangerous because he might pardon crimes “which were advised by himself.”
― Michael J. Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution

“Preachers delivered sermons on the Constitution, pro and con.”
― Michael J. Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution