“This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.”
“We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.”
“We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.”
“Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.”
“The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than a word of either should be violated in this country.”
“Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.”