Vince Flynn

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . . it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

—THOMAS JEFFERSON,
The Declaration of Independence

In an inexplicable way, he thought that a killer left an aura at the scene of a crime.

History was the great teacher, he had always told his students. History repeated itself for many reasons.

“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”

t’s easy to say you understand something when you haven’t experienced it, and it’s even easier to tell someone to get over something when you’ve never been through it.

Set patterns and predictability were liabilities in this business, not assets.