David Drake Quotes

• Nothing's boring if it's in your soul.

  David Drake

  Soul, Boring, Your Soul

  David Drake (2010). “The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 3”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Determination, Numbers, People

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

  David Drake

  Decision, Worthy, Historian

  David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

  David Drake

  Use, Answers, Problem

  "Voyage Across the Stars".

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