Revolution Radio“Teach your children to be brave. This century of ours has been marked most conspicuously by cowardice of the people everywhere. It was by our cowardice that we were betrayed into the hands of corrupt men who promised to make life”safe’ for us and devoid of hazard, and robbed the adventurousness by which the spirits of men are strengthened. It was by our poltroonery that we lost our liberties. It was by our fears that we almost died. A brave people never become slaves.”
– Taylor Caldwell,”The Devil’s Advocate”(1952) — pgs. 332 — 338
I read a couple of her books as a lad.Great Lion of God and sumthin’else.And I liked ’em.And a brave people never becomes slaves but its a damned shame how many brave people have been murdered by slaves.Slaves who felt that they killed to preserve their freedom but in reality were so completely under the yoke of oppression from cradle to grave they had no idea they represented the very thing they killed and died to suppress.Always loved that Beatles song “Nowhere Man”
A poltroon is a base coward.Excellent word I just had to look up.I won’t forget it.