One certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.
Need for you to infect him, since he already had a good sense
Liberty was a tree which had to be watered occasionally with the blood of patriots?
If I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.
As it did. The crest said PNS Farnese and that always irritated him. After all, the battlecruiser wasn't a Navy ship; she belonged to State Security, and her designation should reflect that. Except th...
Whatever it took, she would discharge her own duties and meet her own responsibilities. Not just to protect her career, but because they were her duties and responsibilities.
There’s not much point in making logical arguments to someone who’s already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so
There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.
The world’s best swordsman doesn’t fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can’t predict what the idiot will do.
Parallel worlds, right? Aston nodded. Our sci-fi writers love 'em. They still do back home, Ludmilla assured him.
My favorite’s toxophilia, arousal from archery. You wouldn’t believe the poses people get into. Remember: one overnight bag, that’s it.
Lester Tourville stared at his plot in horror as the impeller signatures of sixty-eight Republican ships of the wall abruptly vanished. Seventeen continued to burn on the display for another handful o...
It wasn’t his fault he’d been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.
It must come from your father's side of the family, Allison informed her with severe disapproval. You never got that sort of dreary, plebeian logic from my genes, dear! Beowulfans' cognitive processes...
He seemed quite a cheerful fellow, too. Even puckish, you might say—at least if, like Brice, you had just recently encountered the term and been taken by it, but hadn't yet read enough literature to r...
He really did have far too many things to do, and as soon as this foolishness - whatever it was - was out of the way, perhaps he could get back to them and-He froze, hazel eyes flaring wide as they lo...
And you were of the opinion propaganda has to make sense to be effective?
And now the same people who'd already infuriated Grayson public opinion had falsely and publicly attacked their greatest planetary hero, who was also the second ranking officer of their navy, the Prot...
And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what...
Liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.