The Patriot Threat Quotes

“He stuffed a hand into his back pocket, found his Beretta, and shot the problem in the chest.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“will prove for the country’s best interest. I have never viewed taxation as a means of rewarding one class of taxpayers or punishing another. If such a point of view ever controls our public policy, the traditions of freedom, justice and equality of opportunity, which are the distinguishing characteristics of our American civilization, will have disappeared and in their place we shall have class legislation with all its attendant evils. The man who seeks to perpetuate prejudice and class hatred is doing America an ill service. In attempting to promote or to defeat legislation by arraying one class of taxpayers against another, he shows a complete misconception of those principles of equality on which the country was founded.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“Mellon was right,” he said. “Raising tax rates does not raise revenues. In fact, just the opposite happens. The rich just find a way to legally shelter their money and avoid the higher taxes. And who could blame them. But every time we’ve lowered tax rates, revenues rose. Harding. Coolidge. Hoover. Kennedy. Reagan. Bush. They all got that.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“...Remember, the second mouse to the trap is the one who always gets the cheese.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“The man who seeks to perpetuate prejudice and class hatred is doing America an ill service.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“I have never viewed taxation as a means of rewarding one class of taxpayers or punishing another. If such a point of view ever controls our public policy, the traditions of freedom, justice and equality of opportunity, which are the distinguishing characteristics of our American civilization, will have disappeared and in their place we shall have class legislation with all its attendant evils. The man who seeks to perpetuate prejudice and class hatred is doing America an ill service. In attempting to promote or to defeat legislation by arraying one class of taxpayers against another, he shows a complete misconception of those principles of equality on which the country was founded.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“the ratification process may have been flawed, yet he certified the amendment passed anyway, that was fraud. Which meant that every single cent collected through a wrongfully adopted 16th Amendment was subject to suit and restitution. Those”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“I like to include you in the definition of me . - Danny Daniels”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“the culprit behind it all easy to ascertain. Kim Yong Jin. Who else could”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“But you’d need the key from which the code was assembled. The master document. Without it, there’s little to no chance of breaking a cipher. That’s why they’re so effective.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“ALSO BY STEVE BERRY COTTON MALONE NOVELS The Lincoln Myth The King’s Deception The Jefferson Key The Emperor’s Tomb The Paris Vendetta The Charlemagne Pursuit The Venetian Betrayal The Alexandria Link The Templar Legacy”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu’s ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“Raising tax rates does not raise revenues. In fact, just the opposite happens. The rich just find a way to legally shelter their money and avoid the higher taxes. And who could blame them. But every time we’ve lowered tax rates, revenues rose. Harding. Coolidge. Hoover. Kennedy. Reagan. Bush. They all got that.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“He found the cone and bit into it. “I’m not an errand boy.” No, he wasn’t. He was a fool, which made him even lower on the pole.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat

“When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.”
― Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat