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  1. David Weber _ Echoes of Honor

    as it did. The crest said "PNS Farnese" and that always irritated him. After all, the battlecruiser wasn't a Navy ship; she belonged to State Security, and her designation should reflect that. Except that the Navy's position was that she was only a Navy ship which was assigned to StateSec, as if the true guardians of the People's safety had no right to put on the airs of "real" warriors. Of course, Thornegrave conceded, hanging SSS on the front of a ship's name would probably look a little funny, but it's the principle of the thing! The Navy and the Marines represent vestigial holdovers from the decadent elitism of the Old Regime. It's past time that State Security absorbed them both into a single organization whose loyalty to the People and State can be absolutely relied upon. The people's commissioners are a move in the right direction, but there's still too much room for recidivists to secretly sabotage the war and the Revolution alike. Surely Citizen Secretary Saint-Just and Citizen Chairman Pierre realize that, don't they? No doubt they did, he told himself once more
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  2. David Weber _ Echoes of Honor

    than he expects. But it's a purely brute force approach
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  3. David Weber _ Echoes of Honor

    liberty was a tree which had to be watered occasionally with the blood of patriots?
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  4. David Weber _ Echoes of Honor

    that was about as good as it was going to get this side of a hot tub, a good-looking man, and a chocolate milkshake.
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  5. David Weber _ Echoes of Honor

    Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,
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