Jac Shand

“It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“A white lamp over the chain-link gate flickered weakly, as if it was the last beacon of hope in a dying land.”
― Dave Stanton, Stateline

“The majority of men are born with constricted understanding and circumscribed intellect. So intensive education would not only be useless in their case but would only confuse and frustrate them, and incite them to anger and resentment.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“If a man seeks to help and glorify his country and make her strong before her enemies his own people will leap at his throat and call him malefactor, a thief, a mountebank, a liar! Better it is to smile and smile and smile upon the people and show a shining countenance than to raise them above the ruck.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece