Bloody indeed, the President said. But we're not a nation that flinches at blood, nor are we a people constrained by feminine delicacy. To us all is permitted—even cruelty, yes, even ruthlessness—for we're the first in the world to raise the sword not in the name of enslaving and oppressing anyone, but in the name of freeing them from bondage. We must not be miserly with blood! Let there be blood, if blood alone can drown the old secular world. Let there be pain, and let there be death, if pain and death will save us from the twin tyrannies of Atheism and Europe.


pp. 247-248 (spoken by the tyrannical president Deklan Comstock) - Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

Robert Charles Wilson Quotes

Bloody indeed, the President said. But we're not a nation that flinches at blood, nor are we a people constrained by feminine delicacy. To us all is...

Bloody indeed, the President said. But we're not a nation that flinches at blood, nor are we a people constrained by feminine delicacy. To us all is...

Bloody indeed, the President said. But we're not a nation that flinches at blood, nor are we a people constrained by feminine delicacy. To us all is...

Bloody indeed, the President said. But we're not a nation that flinches at blood, nor are we a people constrained by feminine delicacy. To us all is...