# Quote — Harry Turtledove, American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

> He’d escaped the last dragnet as much by luck as by anything else. You could tell a man not to be stupid, and maybe—if he wasn’t stupid to begin with—he’d listen. But how the devil could you tell a man not to be unlucky?

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Book: [American Empire: The Victorious Opposition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition.md)
- Page: 460
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/hed-escaped-the

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> As happened too often in politics, never turned out not to be so very long after all.

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> Only two promotions really mattered: the one up from buck private and the one to general’s rank.

p. 466 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/only-two-promotions.md)

> Everyone marched everywhere at Fort Custer. Armstrong had begun to think Thou shalt march' was in the Bible somewhere right below Thou shalt not kill and Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain''—two commandments he was learning more about violating every day.

p. 460 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/everyone-marched-everywhere.md)