If my beliefs could be burned…I would not trust them, nor live by them. They will survive this war with the Chin, even if the Chin themselves do not. Men strive to be emperors and kings, but they are just names. It does not matter which man holds a name. The fields will still need to be worked. The towns will still be thick with vice and corruption…No man knows where the future will take us.
Conn Iggulden - Lords of the Bow
