"Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean."

“I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.”

“A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.”

“To help others develop, start with yourself.”

“I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.”

“I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.”

“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”

“Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”

Source : Jack Campbell (2012). “Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Invincible”, p.140, Penguin

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