Robert Drudy

“Those who make themselves up for political competition or the race for glory, as actors do for the stage, must necessarily regret their action, since they must either serve those whom they think they should rule or offend those whom they wish to please.”
― Mike Duncan, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

“Listen to me here: if you’re going to make a bet, bet on yourself. Of course you won’t always win. Life doesn’t work that way. But if you don’t at least try, how could you ever know what’s on the other side?”
― Chip Gaines, Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff

“I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew — no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”
― Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

“Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom