"Don't tell them anything. When it's over, tell them who won."
— Ernest King

January 1, 1970

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King's reply when asked for a public relations strategy for the U.S. Navy in World War II. As quoted in Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966) by Robert Heinl, p. 258