"You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - o…"

"Count Erskyll said nothing for a moment. He was opposed to the use of force. Force, he believed, was the last resort …"

"Oh, he won't think of it in those terms. He'll be preventing me from sabotaging the Emancipation. He doesn't want to …"

"Young man,the conversation was between Lord Trask and myself. And when someone says something you don't understand ,d…"

"Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent th…"

"Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master."

"There's something wrong with democracy. If there weren't, it couldn't be overthrown by people like Makann, attacking …"

"“I wanted to know what sort of a madman—there are various kinds of madmen, all of whom must be handled differently—bu…"

"“The standard smother-out technique,” Verkan Vall grinned. “I only heard a little talk about the ‘flying saucers,’ an…"

"English is the product of a Norman warrior trying to make a date with an Anglo-saxon bar-maid, and as such is no more…"