Quotes from Cecelia Holland

Consider this. The essence of war is to kill your enemy and not get killed yourself.

Sabotai smiled. "You know the Yasa—if your clan needed you you could have refused to come.

We should remember that it's easier to destroy than to build, and it's really easy to destroy something you have no stake in. It was the 10 percent cut in wages that precipitated The Strike. The Bosses reduced their workers' stake in their operations below the minimum necessary for survival, while denying them any legal recourse. That was when the real Atlas shrugged. 

Temujin said, "It would be seemly to get drunk only three times a month. It would be preferable, clearly, to make it only twice or even only once. It would be perfect never to get drunk at all. But where is the man who could observe such a rule of conduct?

Cities are for burning, not for living in.

I never know as much when I'm sober as I do when I'm drunk.

It was nothing short of marvelous the way the world worked out.

The telegraph kept this all moving fast. The whole transaction between Wheeling and Washington took place in a matter of hours, and could have done so if the ends were San Francisco and Washington. So now, of course, a man could make a stupid decision much faster. So Hayes's natural caution made sense.