Balance of Power Quotes

“to tame the savagery of man, and make gentle the life of the world.”
― Richard North Patterson, Balance of Power

“All of us know that every assassination of an American President was committed with a gun. All of us then living remember our ineradicable grief when John F. Kennedy was murdered. But all too few of us know that since that awful day more Americans have died from gunshot wounds than died in all the wars of the twentieth century, the bloodiest hundred years in world history . . .”
― Richard North Patterson, Balance of Power

“when all else fails, he thought, make an offering to the god of laughter.”
― Richard North Patterson, Balance of Power