The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
“Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.”
“We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.”