Peril in Print (The Trust Trilogy #1)

The Trust

We anticipate resistance. There are always those who believe themselves exceptional—clever enough to evade, principled enough to resist, brave enough to challenge.

We do not discourage such beliefs. They are useful.

They reveal which men can be cultivated, which must be reminded, and which will eventually require elimination.

Every generation produces its reformers.

Most learn the cost of standing outside a structure that continues without them.

We endure because men prefer order to exposure. They prefer insulation to purity. They prefer continuity to reckoning. When reminded of what stability affords them, they return. They always return. And if they do not, others step forward to take their place.