"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

"By the twentieth of April, the story was widely accepted and was viewed as one of the most heartening acts of bravery in the whole tragedy."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"My judgment ought to be given for the plaintiff: but my brothers are all of another opinion, and so I submit to it. The defendant must have his judgment."

"I can’t really imagine war. I can imagine having to fight some swarm of zombie machines or snarling horde of posthuman fast-burn wreckage or whatever, but not two or more actual human societies actual…"