Pam

“Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty

“Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Captains and the Kings

“God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....”
― David Baldacci, Wish You Well