Oath of Loyalty Quotes

“Sometimes there’s no way to win. The only thing you can do is manage your losses.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“Every year his world felt like it got a little smaller. Maybe that was just the way things went as people aged.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“The average human’s mind was a tidal wave of contradictory emotions unbounded by intellect or calculation. Love, hate, fear, greed, lust—all fighting for dominance, advancing and retreating, controlling and justifying every action and reaction.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“Everybody dies. And the rest of us move on until it’s our turn.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“Once one acquired everything money could buy, it all became a game. A petty competition between people with insecurities that they mistook for ambition and superiority.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“Maybe freedom just demands too much of the average citizen. Too much personal responsibility. Too many opportunities for failure.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“People need hardship. They need something to struggle against. Someone to hate and feel superior to. Without those things they lose their identity and sense of purpose.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“The liberty that the free world had enjoyed over the last century was nothing more than an anomaly. A momentary pause between the priests and nobles of antiquity and the politicians and billionaires of the new age. A momentary pause that was coming to its end.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1838”
― Kyle Mills, Oath of Loyalty

“That American democracy is much more delicate than I was willing to admit. I always knew there was a power-hungry ruling class, but I didn’t allow myself to see how many people would be willing to kneel in front of it. Maybe freedom just demands too much of the average citizen. Too much personal responsibility. Too many opportunities for failure.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“No one would acknowledge that they owed America a debt—not the other way around.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty