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The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.

— Mark Riebling Watching the Watchmen: The CIA’s investigation of its own inspector general is perfectly legitimate (2007)

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Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne.

Churchill’s Finest Hour (2009)

France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.

Churchill’s Finest Hour (2009)

When the Soviets faced these two leaders of shared purpose and conviction, they faced their worst-case scenario: a moral-political meta-power.

Freedom's Men: The Cold War Team of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan (2005)

The flaw in the work is the flaw in the man.

His Long War: E Howard Hunt's American Spy (2007)

Appearance is not reality, except in Washington.

Watching the Watchmen: The CIA’s investigation of its own inspector general is perfectly legitimate (2007)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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