Brad Thor and Conservatives in Pop Culture

By Published on August 12, 2015

NR: You sign your books with “Stay in the fight.” Why that phrase?

BT: It was suggested by a friend in the Unit (Delta Force). I was signing a book for him and I asked him what he wanted me to write. He said, “Stay in the fight!” He then told me he thought I should sign all of my books that way.

The more I used it, the more the phrase took on special meaning for me. Stay in the fight isn’t a rallying cry only for people on a battlefield. It can apply to anyone fighting for something they believe in. If you get knocked down, you get back up. You stay in the fight. You don’t give up.

I am an entertainer. My job is to give you the most thrilling, edge-of-your-seat, roller coaster ride I am capable of. I am also an American and believe very strongly that we don’t own the Republic. We are merely stewards and it is incumbent upon us to hand a freer, stronger, and more prosperous nation to the next generation than was handed to us. Stay in the fight, to me, means staying in the fight for freedom.

I am positive my publisher would rather I kept my politics and my patriotism to myself. Who knows how many more books I could sell if I wasn’t constantly calling out the failures of the progressive policies and their Utopian, big government vision? But I am an American, a steward of the Republic before I am anything else. People before me didn’t bleed and die so that I could remain silent in order to sell more books. They fought to help protect my freedoms. What kind of man would I be if I didn’t strive to live up to their sacrifices?

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