Nick

“He loved America. He did. This country had attempted a great experiment for the promotion of human happiness; a written recognition that all men were created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and the State existed to protect those rights, not to impede them. In practice, those high ideals made it a nation of deep hypocrisy, a country ever on a knife's edge, ever failing to live up to it's principles, a nation ever at conflict with itself.”
― Taylor Brown

“The man I choose to be will have a great influence on who my children become...”
― Taylor Brown, Rednecks

“Some of them were God-fearing, but their main god, the one at whose temple they worshipped most frequently, was violence. When they weren’t committing violent acts—brawling in the alehouse or beating their wives—violence seeped into their lives in other ways. It inflected their language. They often spoke of wounding and punishing, even killing. They wore their strength proudly, thumping fists on tables and slapping each other on the back.”
― Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding

“This country was born with a half-measure. One saying free didn't mean free; equal didn't mean equal. But the flag meant both. It will never change. Whoever wins, America will never be worth dying for. The flag eats heroism to protect and spread itself and returns nothing.”
― Dennard Doyle