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“Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. There are schedules, phone calls, careers, anxieties, joys, exotic trips, favorite foods, romance, shame, and hunger. A person can be defined by clothing, the smell of his breath, the way she combs her hair, the shape of his torso, or even the company she keeps.
All over the world, children love their parents and yearn for love in return. They revel in the touch of parental hands on their faces. And even on the worst of days, each person has dreams about the future-dreams that sometimes come true.
Such is life.
Yet life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

“Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.”
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“You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.”
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“These so-called entertainers get rich while the kids who emulate their lyrics and attitude destroy themselves.”
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“We'll do it live... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT! DO IT LIVE... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!”
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“In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps:

"The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous. First, the troops assemble on the edge of bogs with names like Allen’s Creek, Scrub Swamp, and Atchall’s Swamp, standing at loose attention in the shade of a thick forest of beech, dogwood, and gum trees. Then they form two lines and march straight forward, from one side to the other. As absurd as it seems to the soldiers, marching headlong into cold mucky water, there is no other way of locating Booth and Herold. Incredibly, eighty-seven of these brave men will drown in their painstaking weeklong search for the killers.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right. Not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom—here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

“If I am killed I can die but once,” he is fond of saying, “but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Communism has become an intensely dogmatic and almost mystical religion, and whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind,” wrote novelist and screenwriter F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency

“It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams,” he preaches in his inaugural address. “We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. “I believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” *”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency

“Americans despise cowards,” Patton continued all those months ago, putting his own spin on U.S. history. “Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

“Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

“Yet it is America that now commits the unconscionable act of deferring to Russia at the expense of Britain—in effect, killing England. Winston”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

“Put down your guns and go home. Let’s rebuild the nation together. This was President Lincoln’s vision, to which Grant subscribed.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton’s coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

“The Nazarene tells a parable about a wealthy landowner and his troublesome tenants. The summation is a line stating that the religious leaders will lose their authority and be replaced by others whose belief is more genuine.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Jesus: A History

“To understand what Jesus accomplished and how he paid with his life, we have to understand what was happening around him. His was a time when Rome dominated the Western world and brooked no dissent. Human life was worth little. Life expectancy was less than forty years, and far less if you happened to anger the Roman powers that were. An excellent description of the time was written—perhaps with some bombast—by journalist Vermont Royster in 1949: There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar … what was man for but to serve Caesar? There was persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world? Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s. And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God … so the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe that salvation lay with the leaders. But it came to pass for a while in diverse places that the truth did set men free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Jesus: A History

“Gen. George S. Patton Jr. fears no one. But now he sleeps flat on his back in a hospital bed. His upper body is encased in plaster, the result of a car accident twelve days ago. Room 110 is a former utility closet, just fourteen feet by sixteen feet. There are no decorations, pictures on the walls, or elaborate furnishings—just the narrow bed, white walls, and a single high window. A chair has been brought in for Patton’s wife, Beatrice, who endured a long, white-knuckle flight over the North Atlantic from the family home in Boston to be at his bedside. She sits there now, crochet hook moving silently back and forth, raising her eyes every few moments to see if her husband has awakened.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

“It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the 'fear of They,' and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and the weak-kneed congressmen, Patton wrote in his journal. 'But so it is.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

“When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.” *”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

“He watched a lot of cable news and did not like what President Obama was doing. He would have fired Mr. Obama from The Apprentice.”
― Bill O'Reilly, The United States of Trump

“In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, “her desire grew greater than it had been before.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Jesus: A History

“He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Jesus: A History

“This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul, too.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Jesus: A History

“to retire is to expire.”
― Bill O'Reilly, The United States of Trump

“Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can no longer keep them at bay." Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly”
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“New York, it’s in your face. In Washington, it’s in your back.”
― Bill O'Reilly, The United States of Trump

“Give me four days so that my planes can fly, so that my fighter bombers can bomb and strafe, so that my reconnaissance may pick out targets for my magnificent artillery. Give me four days of sunshine to dry this blasted mud, so that my tanks roll, so that ammunition and rations may be taken to my hungry, ill-equipped infantry. I need these four days to send von Rundstedt and his godless army to their Valhalla. I am sick of this unnecessary butchering of American youth, and in exchange for four days of fighting weather, I will deliver You enough Krauts to keep Your bookkeepers months behind in their work. “Amen.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

“The land of the rising sun—ANCIENT CHINESE DESCRIPTION OF JAPAN, REFERRING TO THE MORNING SUN’S REACHING THE ISLANDS OF JAPAN BEFORE THE ASIAN MAINLAND”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

“The crisis isn’t over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot