I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself,” Paul said. “I know this. Every man should have such an auditor. - Frank Herbert

"Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord."

Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...