People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL
Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom. They had no idea how harsh the rest of the world was.
The number of elected officials who were willing to put the good of the country ahead of their own ego, and the success of their political party, was minuscule.
In 1776 the founders of the United States of America sent a Declaration of Independence to the King of England. In that Declaration, Thomas Jefferson wrote that whenever any Form of Government becomes...
I don't want to hear another word about my attitude. i don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, and I sure as hell don't want anyone second-guessing what I do. (Mitch Rapp)
In a sense, the business arrangement was a bit like a man leaving his wife for the woman he’s been having an affair with. The fact that the same man decides to then cheat on the woman he originally ch...
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
Any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.
Rapp took his pathetic self-absorbed emotion and shoved it as far down in his gut as it would go, and he plugged it with the first and only thing he had available—anger. That anger slowly metastasized...
There, he was a lion. Here, he could end up being someone's lunch.
It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Mitch Rapp)