Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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

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

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.