David Stacton > Quotes

“here”
― David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth

“A Grand Inquisitor may not respect anything else, but he does respect property. So do the new men. Men, women, children, and the emotions count for nothing. It is their right to suffer, for they are guilty and deceitful. But property is real.”
― David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth

“It was something all the Booths were aware of, those judges … If we are too selfless to believe in God, and yet remain somehow devout, we are very much aware of the Judges of the Secret Court. We cannot see them, nor do we know who they are. But they are there: the whole world is a courtroom, every life is a trial; if we are guilty, we stand there condemned; if we are innocent … we have to prove it. But who can prove it? For in fact no man is innocent at that bar. He is always accessory, willynilly, before or after some fact.”
― David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth