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The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.