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Top 25 William R. Forstchen Quotes (2025 Update)

William R. Forstchen Quote: “As was said by Thomas Jefferson, “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

1. “As was said by Thomas Jefferson, “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “The moment of a fall from greatness often comes just when a people and a nation feel most secure. The cry “the barbarians are at the gates” too often comes as a terrifying bolt out of the blue, which is often the last cry ever heard.”

2. “The moment of a fall from greatness often comes just when a people and a nation feel most secure. The cry “the barbarians are at the gates” too often comes as a terrifying bolt out of the blue, which is often the last cry ever heard.”

— William R. Forstchen

William R. Forstchen Quote: “We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.”

3. “We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “The threat is real, and we as Americans must face that threat, prepare, and know what to do to prevent it. For if we do not, “one second after,” the America we know, cherish, and love will be gone forever.”

4. “The threat is real, and we as Americans must face that threat, prepare, and know what to do to prevent it. For if we do not, “one second after,” the America we know, cherish, and love will be gone forever.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.”

5. “To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “This is the way the world will end, not with a bang, but a whimper.”

6. “This is the way the world will end, not with a bang, but a whimper.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “A thermonuclear bomb hitting it directly would have been more humane.”

7. “A thermonuclear bomb hitting it directly would have been more humane.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.”

8. “Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “We are asleep again, while North Korea tests nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, Iran is not far behind, and ISIS, a movement as brutal and psychotic as Nazism, emerges. It had never been my intention to write a sequel to One Second After, but wherever I spoke that was always a question: What happens next? I resisted for five years; my publisher, Tom Doherty, and his senior editor Bob Gleason dropping major “hints” that they wanted more. During those years I did give them a book which.”

9. “We are asleep again, while North Korea tests nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, Iran is not far behind, and ISIS, a movement as brutal and psychotic as Nazism, emerges. It had never been my intention to write a sequel to One Second After, but wherever I spoke that was always a question: What happens next? I resisted for five years; my publisher, Tom Doherty, and his senior editor Bob Gleason dropping major “hints” that they wanted more. During those years I did give them a book which.”

— William R. Forstchen

William R. Forstchen Quote: “She’d always talk about how great Gandhi was. I’d tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he’d of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.”

10. “She’d always talk about how great Gandhi was. I’d tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he’d of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they’re dying all at once.” John.”

11. “To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they’re dying all at once.” John.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that’s when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It’s in the report. It’s called the ‘Compton Effect.”

12. “We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that’s when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It’s in the report. It’s called the ‘Compton Effect.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “It was so damn strange, John thought, how sometimes the most unlikely, an ugly little man like this one, could hold such power. He had a tremendous command presence, his voice sweet, rich, carrying power. So strange how some had that, could spout utter insanity and others would follow blindly.”

13. “It was so damn strange, John thought, how sometimes the most unlikely, an ugly little man like this one, could hold such power. He had a tremendous command presence, his voice sweet, rich, carrying power. So strange how some had that, could spout utter insanity and others would follow blindly.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.”

14. “Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “The two “idiots” Ginger and Zach, both golden retrievers, both beautiful-looking dogs – and both thicker than bricks when it came to brains – had been out sunning on the bedroom deck. They stood up and barked madly, as if he were an invader. Though if he were a real invader they’d have cowered in terror and stained the carpet as they fled into Jennifer’s room to hide.”

15. “The two “idiots” Ginger and Zach, both golden retrievers, both beautiful-looking dogs – and both thicker than bricks when it came to brains – had been out sunning on the bedroom deck. They stood up and barked madly, as if he were an invader. Though if he were a real invader they’d have cowered in terror and stained the carpet as they fled into Jennifer’s room to hide.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Our entire economy is built now on electronic money. It’s all faith, and if a crack appears in that faith, then what?”

16. “Our entire economy is built now on electronic money. It’s all faith, and if a crack appears in that faith, then what?”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Anyone with even the remotest understanding of EMP and the threat to the nation should have been going insane before it hit.”

17. “Anyone with even the remotest understanding of EMP and the threat to the nation should have been going insane before it hit.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Oh, John, you’re a great father, but you don’t understand kids. I’ve worked in hospitals with kids like Jennifer. Kids that were terminal. They had it figured out long before their parents could admit it to themselves.” “She is not terminal,” he snarled, glaring at Makala angrily. She said nothing. “Damn you, no.” He was humiliated by the tears that suddenly clouded his vision. He struggled to choke back the sobs that now overwhelmed him.”

18. “Oh, John, you’re a great father, but you don’t understand kids. I’ve worked in hospitals with kids like Jennifer. Kids that were terminal. They had it figured out long before their parents could admit it to themselves.” “She is not terminal,” he snarled, glaring at Makala angrily. She said nothing. “Damn you, no.” He was humiliated by the tears that suddenly clouded his vision. He struggled to choke back the sobs that now overwhelmed him.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Amazing- the years of political correctness pumped out of our colleges became an education of national guilt.”

19. “Amazing- the years of political correctness pumped out of our colleges became an education of national guilt.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Abraham Lincoln, the closing lines of his first inaugural. It was an appeal for peace; he prayed that all of us would finally be moved by ’the better angels of our nature.”

20. “Abraham Lincoln, the closing lines of his first inaugural. It was an appeal for peace; he prayed that all of us would finally be moved by ’the better angels of our nature.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “He felt a deep swelling of pride but also anguish. It was the torment all loving parents feel when they see their child making a difficult and perhaps dangerous decision as an adult when, in memory, they still see the small innocent child of years long gone.”

21. “He felt a deep swelling of pride but also anguish. It was the torment all loving parents feel when they see their child making a difficult and perhaps dangerous decision as an adult when, in memory, they still see the small innocent child of years long gone.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure.”

22. “I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Back in the 1940s, when we started firing off atomic bombs to test them, this pulse wave was first noticed. Not much back then with those primitive weapons, but it was there. And here’s the key thing: there were no solid-state electronics back in the 1940s, everything was still vacuum tubes, so it was rare for the small pulses set off by those first bombs to damage anything.”

23. “Back in the 1940s, when we started firing off atomic bombs to test them, this pulse wave was first noticed. Not much back then with those primitive weapons, but it was there. And here’s the key thing: there were no solid-state electronics back in the 1940s, everything was still vacuum tubes, so it was rare for the small pulses set off by those first bombs to damage anything.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly.”

24. “That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly to them, Churchill in 1940, Jack Kennedy in 1962, and Reagan in the 1980s.”

25. “That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly to them, Churchill in 1940, Jack Kennedy in 1962, and Reagan in the 1980s.”

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William R. Forstchen Quote: “Don’t we, the ordinary citizens of our country who are aware of the threat, realize the elites will take care of their own no matter what happens?”

26. “Don’t we, the ordinary citizens of our country who are aware of the threat, realize the elites will take care of their own no matter what happens?”

— William R. Forstchen

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