The Reckoning Quotes

“Give me your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’” “That sentiment isn’t as popular as it once might have been. I don’t know if it ever was.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning

“Heinrich Müller, the head of the secret police, a more pragmatic man than Hitler, who tended to express himself in parables and wish lists, ordered the arrest of between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews. The overworked Gestapo didn’t have enough men to complete the job, so they enlisted the help of the local police, the SA, and even the SS.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning

“vow to you, Adolf Hitler, as Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich, loyalty and bravery. I vow to you and the leaders you set before me absolute allegiance unto death. So help me, God.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning

“Unlike the rich, the poor identified with Marx's teachings and reveled in the idea of unionizing and wresting back some of the power the rich had cradled for centuries. Maureen wondered how they would react to the reality of living under a Communist system that had destroyed Russia. Stalin used the excuse of progress for the workers to murder countless numbers of them. It seemed although democracy was a flawed system, it was superior to all the others ever devised.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning

“The Nazis’ militaristic outlook didn’t stretch to looking after the hundreds of homeless veterans sleeping on the streets of Berlin every night. It was yet another example of National Socialist hypocrisy in action. Seamus threw some coins onto the plate.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning

“that if we could fulfill our true potential, we would become the greatest country in the world once more. They were terrified of that, so they tried to keep us down with reparations—huge debts they saddled us with to destroy our economy. And they almost succeeded. The previous generation of sniveling, cowardly politicians weren’t brave enough to stand up to the foreigners, or the threat of the Bolshevik hordes...” “Don't forget the Jews!”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning

“Up is down, water is no longer wet. They lie so much that people give up fighting to believe the truth.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Reckoning