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All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

DAVID WEBER, Off Armageddon Reef

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

God didn't give us minds just so we could refuse to use them.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove.

DAVID WEBER, Off Armageddon Reef

Politics ... was at least half a question of proper stage management. And the higher the stakes, the more critical that management became.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

If justice must be dealt, then let it be dealt, but don't poison yourselves with vengeance.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

No man or woman can truly choose to serve God unless they are equally free to refuse to serve Him, and God desires for His people to come to Him clear-eyed and joyously, not cringing in terror of the Inquisition and the damnation of Hell.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

You can't kill ideas with a sword.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder

I'm not so foolish as to think truth and justice must inevitably triumph simply because they deserve to, but liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder


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