Quotes from Brad Thor

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...

Happiness in life is all about three things—something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Hegelian dialectic—a psychological tool used to manipulate the masses. In this case, you create a problem, wait for the reaction, and then offer the solution. What people historically fail to realize, though, is that those offering the solution are the same people who caused the problem in the first place. They also fail to realize that no matter what the solution is, it always ends up providing its creators with more power.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The wisdom of the founders never ceased to amaze him.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.

De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." —EDMUND BURKE

We don't even use the word terror anymore. There's only 'man-made disasters' caused by disenfranchised groups who are really just 'misunderstood.

Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You cannot withstand the storm.' The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.'

Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any.

As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.

Canada was the most patient invading force in the world—one penny at a time, one pop singer at a time, one actor at a time. … It might take them ten thousand years to conquer the United States, but they were on the move, and the American people needed to wake up.

I know my limits. You don't ever need to worry about me." "Thanks, Scot. I'll remind myself of that next time I see you looking like a flipped turtle.

Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.

It had to be tonight and it had to be moonless, because that was the only way a dangerous, borderline-psychotic insertion like this could ever possibly work.

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?