The Titans Quotes

“Whenever he touched her, she ached in a distinctly unladylike way.”
― John Jakes, The Titans

“Living without principles, or refusing to act on those principles, isn’t living, just cowardice.”
― John Jakes, The Titans

“The spinning works of the Northeast and Europe demanded huge quantities of cotton. To supply this world market, the South had clung to slave-based agriculture—at a time when it should have been developing its own industrial base.”
― John Jakes, The Titans

“Change. Change— It backed a man into a corner. It robbed him of power he’d once savored. And a man thus trapped often fought to protect or restore the old ways. Fought with desperation; with an almost religious fervor.”
― John Jakes, The Titans

“the sectional crisis was rooted not only in a peculiarly American problem—Constitutional interpretation—but in an issue that was global in scope: change, and the resistance to it.”
― John Jakes, The Titans

“The spinning works of the Northeast and Europe demanded huge quantities of cotton. To supply this world market, the South had clung to slave-based agriculture—at a time when it should have been developing its own industrial base. The refusal to acknowledge the need for change was more than saddening. It was disastrous.”
― John Jakes, The Titans

“there was always risk; always the promise of pain— But the promise of love was stronger.”
― John Jakes, The Titans