Jack Carr > Quotes

“The consolidation of power at the federal level in the guise of public safety is a national trend and should be guarded against at all costs. This erosion of rights, however incremental, is the slow death of freedom. We have reached a point where the power of the federal government is such that they can essentially target anyone of their choosing. Recent allegations that government agencies may have targeted political opponents should alarm all Americans, regardless of party affiliation. Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at the federal level threaten the core principles of the Republic. As a free people, keeping federal power in check is something that should be of concern to us all. The fundamental value of freedom is what sets us apart from the rest of the world. We are citizens, not subjects, and we must stay ever vigilant that we remain so.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“You show me a member of Congress who’s part of the appropriations process and I’ll show you a wife, child, or brother-in-law with a company that benefits from federal dollars.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“You must direct the fire and movement of the entire element and resist the instinct to become just another gun in the fight.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon, and he made his web gear, He doesn't worry about hat workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn't care how hard it is; he only knows that he wins or he dies. He doesn't go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the cause.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we’ll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers.” “Until Valhalla, Freddy.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at the federal level threaten the core principles of the Republic. As a free people, keeping federal power in check is something that should be of concern to us all. The fundamental value of freedom is what sets us apart from the rest of the world. We are citizens, not subjects, and we must stay ever vigilant that we remain so.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank with their heads watching the horizon, spears in hand. Though they were few, they were the men he needed.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“The consolidation of power at the federal level in the guise of public safety is a national trend and should be guarded against at all costs.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“There was only one place where a lazy lawyer who was scared of the courtroom could thrive: government service.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side, Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“You can plan forever but at some point you have to execute.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“Never let a tragedy go to waste.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“Policies created by bureaucrats in uniform essentially disarmed some of the most highly trained and competent warriors on earth.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“The insignia would be meaningless to all but a few people, most of whom were dead. See you soon, boys.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“Sometimes the most important shots in battle are the ones not taken.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“luck was the residue of preparation.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.”
― Jack Carr, Savage Son

“The consolidation of power at the federal level in the guise of public safety is a national trend and should be guarded against at all costs. This erosion of rights, however incremental, is the slow death of freedom.”
― Jack Carr, Savage Son

“The admiral was clearly more concerned with force diversity and the push to open the SEAL Teams to females than he was with crushing America’s enemies. Whatever got him his next star.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“I never pay attention to the odds,” Reece said.”
― Jack Carr, Red Sky Mourning

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
― Jack Carr, Only the Dead

“In his 1960 novel, The Centurions, a book that follows French paratroopers in counterinsurgency operations in Indochina and then Algeria, author Jean Lartéguy, who just might make an appearance in the pages ahead, writes: “I’d like… to have two armies: one for display, with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, fanfares, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers… an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country. The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage battledress, who would not be put on display but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That’s the army in which I should like to fight.” Every time I read that passage, I cannot help but think of MACV-SOG.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“The American occupiers were no better than the French colonizers and no better than the Nazis that had plagued his native France. One day they too would be defeated. When the Americans left—and they would”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“We can capitalize on the situation. Regardless of what happens in the rest of the country”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Havoc, this is Covey, say again your last, over.” The voice from the heavens, heavy with an American southern accent, was a lifeline. A chance to survive.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Tower of the Elephant in my third novel, Savage Son: “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“There are few better ways to attract attention than by throwing money around.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“For those who have lived their lives in a constant state of hypervigilance, as our DNA dictates is necessary to survive and prevail at the tip of the spear, identifying a new mission in a postmilitary life can be a daunting task; the team is family, the team is purpose, the team is home.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“They, they have this program where they radicalize at-risk individuals from target populations. They recruit them to what they think is a radical Islamic movement and then use them as expendable assets.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“Special Operations Group’s Vietnamese naval surface forces—instructed and advised by U.S. Navy SEALs—boldly raided North Vietnam’s coast and won surface victories against the North Vietnamese Navy, while indigenous agent teams penetrated the very heartland of North Vietnam.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc