“We should hang one of those reporter bastards every week. They're more help to the enemy than spies.""They'd make poor spies, They get everything wrong" General Grant and General Sherman”
“Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno.”
“Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible”
“And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”
“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
“The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.”