“The plans and schemes of tyrants are broken by many things. They shatter against cliffs of heroic struggle. They rupture on reefs of open resistance. And they are slowly eroded, bit by little bit, on the very beaches where they measure triumph, by countless grains of sand. By the stubborn little decencies of humble little men.”

— Eric Flint

In the Heart of Darkness http://www.baen.com/Library/0671878859/0671878859.htm (1998)

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