The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.