The 14th Colony Quotes

“Don’t argue with an idiot, he’ll only beat you with experience.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“you don’t need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“Truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“How could anyone believe that a political system could provide all of the goods and services a people needed without cost? A daily gratification that would eliminate greed, selfishness, miserliness, and infidelity. A place where man could become noble, strong, and courageous. Crime, violence, and social ills would vanish. It’s absurd. The experiment called the Soviet Union only proved that none of that is possible.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“No one cares about some ex-vice-president or president”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“Yet ignorance seemed the greatness weakness of conformity. A select few made all the decisions, and everyone else followed, regardless that those decisions could be wrong.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“To think that America could exist independent of what was happening around the globe, no matter how far away or how remote things might appear, bordered on idiocy.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“Americans believed in openness. Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“Tell me, Bruce, what’s it like to be second? Never the captain. Always the lieutenant.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“white, vaporous”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony

“The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free.”
― Steve Berry, The 14th Colony