Brad Thor > Quotes

“... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.”
― Brad Thor, The Apostle

“...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.”
― Brad Thor, Full Black

“You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.”
― Brad Thor, Black List

“There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart.
They believe this is why Islam has always relied so heavily on the threat of death. Question Islam, malign Islam, or leave Islam and you will be killed. It is a totalitarian modus operandi that silences all dissent and examination, thereby protecting the faith from ever having to defend itself.”
― Brad Thor, The Last Patriot

“Have a smile on your face for everyone you meet, and a plan to kill them.”
― Brad Thor

“You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial."
"I can if you're on the list, traitor."
"LIST? What list? What the hell are you talking about?"
BLACK LIST, July 24”
― Brad Thor, Black List

“There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.”
― Brad Thor, The Apostle

“Happiness in life is all about three things—something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.”
― Brad Thor, Act of War

“Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...”
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“Power perceived is power achieved.”
― Brad Thor, The Athena Project

“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.”
― Brad Thor, Black List

“Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.”
― Brad Thor, The First Commandment

“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.”
― Brad Thor, Black List

“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.”
― Brad Thor, Full Black

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” —JOHN F. KENNEDY”
― Brad Thor, Hidden Order

“De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites ”
― Brad Thor

“If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.”
― Brad Thor, Hidden Order

“While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.”
― Brad Thor, The Last Patriot

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” —EDMUND BURKE”
― Brad Thor, Foreign Agent

“Al Qaeda” didn’t translate to “the base,” as most Western media outlets had so ignorantly reported, but rather, “the database.” It referred to the original computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with the help of the CIA to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan.”
― Brad Thor, The First Commandment

“You ever work with a UN stabilization force?” Ash asked. Harvath shook his head. “Then trust me. As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. The cholera outbreak the old blue helmets caused in Haiti? Over ten thousand dead, and it has spread to the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The rapes and sex crimes they have committed in Mali and everywhere else? The stories of their depravity and brutality are legion.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“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.”
― Brad Thor, Full Black

“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.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“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.”
― Brad Thor, Takedown

“He was coming in way too fast. He'd had no choice. The wind had changed, and coming in quickly was the only way to keep up with the speed of the enormous vessel.”
― Brad Thor, Free Fall

“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’ ”
― Brad Thor, Near Dark

“As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.”
― Brad Thor, Code of Conduct

“We don’t even use the word terror anymore. There’s only ‘man-made disasters’ caused by disenfranchised groups who are really just ‘misunderstood.”
― Brad Thor, Foreign Influence

“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.”
― Brad Thor, Black List

“Muslim students would go through a bunch of feel-good exercises and leave with the impression that without Islamic contributions to science, there would be no U.S. space program.”
― Brad Thor, Act of War