Quotes from David Weber

Hatred is a poison, but anger—good, honestly-come-by anger, the kind that stems from outrage, from the need to protect the weak or lift the fallen or stop the cruel—that's not poison. That's strength. Too much of it can lead to hatred, and from there it's one slippery step to self-damnation, but never underestimate the empowering strength of the right sort of anger.

So in this case, knowing that you're watching our backs, as it were, will probably be worth more to both of us then having you actually at the table.

Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.

economies depend a lot more on perceptions than realities.

I want full squadron attacks—no more individual horse shit here people, or I will provide some unfortunate souls with new anal orifices!

Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies

How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciation of the limitations they've been taught and becomes sophistry to bolster the status quo and protect my own rights and privileges?

the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

But his only alternatives were to play for the possibility, however remote, that he could pull one of them off or else to simply surrender everything he'd spent the last forty-six T-months trying to achieve. He couldn't do that. Even running the very real risk of slipping back over into a brief, bloody clash with the Republic was better than that.

You're kidding me! Vice Admiral Horth told her com screen. The hell I am. There was just over a one-second transmission delay each way between Soissons Orbit One and Jefferson Field, and Admiral Marat's expression was less humorous even than the weapons fire in Horth's plot when he replied two seconds later. We've got a rogue drop commando in an alpha-synth, Becky, and she's boosting out of here like a bat out of hell.

that power setting produced an acceleration of over

logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.

Nothing else in this world can damn and destroy souls as effectively as our need to inflict vengeance and call it justice.

it. But taking that route never gets you anywhere; you get trapped in an eternal round of massacres and counter massacres. It's only after you break the cycle and create strong groups—nations—that enforce the laws and demand some sort of international standard of acceptable behavior, that things start to improve.

all that was necessary for evil to triumph was for good men—and women—to do nothing.

eyelashes, and the dimples of the devastating smile which was going to get him into all sorts of trouble in another few years danced at the corners of his mouth.

Don't worry so much! My skin's thick enough to put up with honestly expressed opinions, even from outsiders, however little I may care for them. And if I started using my security people to break heads or quash dissent, I'd only prove I was exactly what they say I am, now wouldn't I? The

It's amazing what deadly weapons compassion and morality are when they're deployed in the service of diplomacy.

new business. I hope it prospers. When treason prospers, then none dare call it treason, Roger thought. I wonder if that was an intentional quote.