Author: Steve Berry

Cites

• Philadelphia Convention (1)
  • IN: The Jefferson Key (2011) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The Congress shall have Power to... grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water..."
    FROM: Constitution of the United States. Article 1, Section 8, (1787), Legal Document, US
• Captain Charles Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Jefferson Key (2011) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Privateers are the nursey for pirates"
    FROM: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, (1724), Book, UK
• Abraham Lincoln (2)
  • IN: Lincoln Myth (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liverate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.
    FROM: NULL, (1848), NULL, US
  • IN: The Lincoln Myth (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Any people anywhere, being inclinded and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right-- A right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people , that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit
    FROM: Speech, January 12, 1848, (1848), Speech, US
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1)
  • IN: The Paris Vendetta (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their sole object is gain.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• James (attributed, but really Olive Cushing Dwinell) Madison (1)
  • IN: The Paris Vendetta (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments.
    FROM: The Story of Our Money, (1946), NULL, NULL
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1)
  • IN: The Paris Vendetta (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• NULL (5)
  • IN: The Columbus Affair (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For 500 years historians have pondered the question: Who was Christopher Columbus? The answer is simply another question: Who do you want him to be?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Venetian Betrayal (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is a divine right of madness, not to be able to see the evil which lies just in front
    FROM: Unknown Danish Playwright, (None), NULL, Denmark
  • IN: The 14th Colony (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January.
    FROM: U.S. Constitution 20th Amendment, (1933), Law, US
  • IN: The Emperor's Tomb (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is a maiden, and you can dress her however you wish.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
  • IN: The Templar legacy (2006) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jesus said, "Know what is within your sight, and what is hidden from you will become clear. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.
    FROM: The Gospel of Thomas, (None), Saying, NULL
• Kim Il-sung (1)
  • IN: The Patriot Threat (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No feeling in the world is greater, more enabling and more sacred than patriotism
    FROM: With the Century, (1992), Book, North Korea
• Elizabeth I (1)
  • IN: The King's Deception (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I tell you my seat hath been the seat of Kings. I will have no rascal to succeed me, and who should succeed me but a King.
    FROM: NULL, (1603), NULL, UK
• Confucius (2)
  • IN: The Charlemagne Pursuit (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Study the past, if you would divine the future
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China
  • IN: The Emperor's Tomb (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Study the past if you would define the future.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China
• Bible (2)
  • IN: The Charlemagne Pursuit (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind
    FROM: Bible, Proverbs 11:29, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Bishop's Pawn (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They said one to another, behold there cometh the dreamer, let us slay him and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
    FROM: Genesis 37:19-20, (-165), NULL, NULL
• Lao Tzu (1)
  • IN: The Charlemagne Pursuit (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Ancient Masters were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, all we can do is describe their appearance. Watchful, like men crossing a winter stream. Alert like men aware of danger. Courteous, like visiting guests. Yielding, like ice about to melt Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China
• Alexander the Great (1)
  • IN: The Venetian Betrayal (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Toil and risk are the Price of Glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Oscar Handlin (1)
  • IN: The Alexandria Link (2007) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is the distillation of evidence surviving the past.
    FROM: Truth in History, (1979), Book, US
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: The Alexandria Link (2007) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Since the first Adam who beheld the night and the day and the shape of his own hand, men have made up stories and have fixed in stone, in metal, or on parchment whatever the world includes or dreams create. Here is the fruit of their labor: the Library…The faithless say that if it were to burn, history would burn with it. They are wrong. Unceasing human work gave birth to this infinity of books. If of them all not even one remained, man would again beget each page and every line.
    FROM: Alexandria, 641 A.D., (None), Poem, Argentina
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1)
  • IN: The Alexandria Link (2007) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: regarding the Library of Alexandria Libraries are the memory of mankind.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Peter the Great (1)
  • IN: The Romanov Prophecy (2004) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Russia-a country in which things that just don't happen happen.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Mikhail Lermontov (1)
  • IN: The Romanov Prophecy (2004) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A year shall come of Russia's blackest dread; Then will the crown fall from the royal head, The throne of tsars will perish in the mud, The food of many will be death and blood.
    FROM: NULL, (1830), NULL, NULL
• Robert Kaiser (1)
  • IN: The Romanov Prophecy (2004) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Russia: mysterious dark continent, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" in Winston Churchill's phrase, remote, inaccessible to foreigners, inexplicable even to natives. That is the myth, encouraged by Russians themselves, who would prefer that no one discover who they really are and how they really live.
    FROM: Russia: The People and the Power, (1984), Book, US
• David Remnick (1)
  • IN: The Romanov Prophecy (2004) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For all its trials, for all its mistakes, the story of Russia at the end of the [twentieth] century must be counted as a kind of revival, a resurrection.
    FROM: Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, (1997), Book, US
• Pope Leo X (1)
  • IN: The Templar legacy (2006) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It has served us well, this myth of Christ.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Kim Il Sung (1)
  • IN: The Patriot Theart (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No feeling in the world is greater, more ennobling and more sacred than patriotism.
    FROM: With the Century, (1992), Book, North Korea
• Han Fei-Tzu (1)
  • IN: The Emperor's Tomb (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All countries large and small suffer one defect in common: the surrounding of the ruler with unworthy personnel. Those who would control rulers, first discover their secret fears and wishes.
    FROM: NULL, (-250), NULL, China