The Empire's Corps Quotes

“One of the most dangerous signs of decline is the sudden reluctance to tolerate different points of view in political debate.  Questions and issues that were discussed freely are suddenly forbidden, limiting the realm of political science.  The reluctance to question the fundamental basis of our culture and society is, in itself, crippling free enquiry and freedom of speech.”
― Christopher Nuttall, The Empire's Corps

“A person who looks helpless may not be helpless.  A person who looks harmless may not be harmless.  A weapon can be anything, or hidden anywhere.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Empire's Corps

“You can bomb a patch of ground, burn it, coat it with chemical weapons, poison it, irradiate it and destroy it...but you don’t own it until you have a man with a rifle standing on top of it.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Empire's Corps

“the most expensive thing to have in all of human history is the second-best army in the world.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Empire's Corps

“the quickest way to a man’s heart was with ten inches of a monofilament blade, stabbed right through the chest.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Empire's Corps

“Men are fools and morons who cannot remember that the purpose of war is to win.  You are not being trained to fight a fair fight; you are being trained to defeat the enemies of the Empire!  The best chance to give your enemy is none at all.  A fair fight is a losing fight.  Shoot him in the back, kick him in the balls, play dead till he has his pants around his ankles and then give him hell!”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Empire's Corps

“Edward swore, angrily.  It wasn't the first time that men and women had died under his command, but it was never easy to accept.  It was worse, somehow, because he hadn't been in direct command.  Would a young man’s life have been saved if he'd been in command, rather than one of the Lieutenants?  Edward had known that it wasn’t going to be easy to deal with the bandits, not as long as they had modern military-grade firepower, yet...he pushed the feelings of rage and grief into a corner of his mind and locked them away firmly.  There would be time to deal with them later.”
― Christopher Nuttall, The Empire's Corps