Author: Brad Thor
Cites
- William Shakespeare (1)
- IN: Code of Conduct (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you must break the law, do it to seize power.
FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
- NULL (6)
- IN: The Lions Of Lucerne (2002) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Fortes Fortuna Adjuvat.
Fortune favors the brave.
FROM: Latin Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
- IN: The First Commandment (2007) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites.
Do not wish ill for your enemy, plan it.
FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
- IN: Path Of The Assassin (2003) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Si vis pacem, para bellum.
If you wish peace, prepare for war.
FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
- IN: Blowback (2005) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hannibal ad portas
Hannibal is at the gates.
FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
- IN: Takedown (2006) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Exitus acta probat
The ends justify the means.
FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
- IN: State Of The Union (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Cunctando Regitur Mundis
Waiting, one rules the world.
FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
- Ibn Umar al-Khattab (1)
- IN: The Last Patriot (2008) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Let no one of you say that he has acquired the entire Koran, for how does he know that it is all? Much of the Koran has been lost; thus let him say, ‘I have acquired of it what is available.
FROM: Ibn Umar al-Khattab, 7th-century companion of Mohammed and 2nd Muslim Caliph, (650), [NA], Saudi Arabia
- Leonardo da Vinci (1)
- IN: Foreign Influence (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Italy
- George Orwell (1)
- IN: The Apostle (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], UK
- John F. Kennedy (1)
- IN: Hidden Order (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
FROM: NULL, (1963), Speech, US
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1)
- IN: Act of War (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Let her sleep. For when the dragon wakes, she will shake the world.
FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
- Julius Ceasar (1)
- IN: Code of Conduct (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you must break the law, do it to seize power.
FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Italy
- Edmund Burke (1)
- IN: Foreign Agent (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
FROM: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, (1770), Book, UK