This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.