In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.