“Courage, though, he’d been told, was being only one who knew how terrified you were.”

Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

* I’m on a J. R. R. Tolkien roll today, “The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.”