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

“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

“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

“Never let a tragedy go to waste.”
― 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. This erosion of rights, however incremental, is the slow death of freedom.”
― Jack Carr, Savage Son

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

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

“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

“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

“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, Savage Son

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

“Carl was engrossed in the latest Brad Thor thriller and would glance up from time to time to observe the screens. Scott hit pause on his iPhone long enough to say hello. He was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast where the podcaster was somehow discussing psychedelic drugs and bow hunting with Cam Hanes in the same episode.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

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

“I’ve told you before, as fast as you are, even you can’t outrun time. It has a nasty way of catching up with you. Trust me. I know.”
― Jack Carr, Only the Dead

“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”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“the Marines, if successful, would prove even more extraordinary than an attack on the embassy. The Marines were, after all, a symbol of American might. For the operation, he brought in Abu Haydar Musawi, who commanded a martyrdom group known as the Husayni Suicide Forces. On October 18—the same day Reagan’s”
― Jack Carr, Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

“Islam is a religion, just as Christianity is a religion. Islamism is the idea that a certain interpretation, any interpretation, of Islam must be imposed on society at large. It’s a political movement, a totalitarian movement, with Islam as its vehicle, with the goal of eventually creating the Khilafah.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“Stupid Americans. Didn’t they comprehend what was happening? They were killing themselves. While they foolishly spent their treasure and spilled their blood in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, the very ideology they were fighting to defeat was moving into their cities, their schools, their very government. The freedoms the West championed so proudly would be their ultimate downfall. Those freedoms would be targeted and exploited. Their freedoms were their weakness. Know thy enemy.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer

“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”
― Jack Carr, Only the Dead

“To his way of thinking, the most beautiful people in the world had been moving to L.A. for more than a century. That was five generations of breeding encapsulated along the California coast. Why would one live anywhere else?”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List