Shaun

“Because in the end the taxpayers of every country will pay for the war—but the politician who tells them that will never win another election.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“Our government has betrayed us,” said his father. “In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn’t riot!”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“The counting in Los Angeles was slow. Every unopened box was guarded by armed Democrats, who believed that tampering had robbed them of a presidential victory in 1876.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel. The people around him were poorly dressed and ill-educated, and they lived lives of unending hard work, the men winning the coal underground, the women raising the next generation of miners. But they had strong backs and sharp minds, and all on their own they had created a culture that made life worth living. They gained hope from nonconformist Christianity and left-wing politics, they found joy in rugby football and male voice choirs, and they were bonded together by generosity in good times and solidarity in bad. This was what he would be fighting for, these people, this town. And if he had to give his life for them, it would be well spent.”
― Ken Follett, Winter of the World