Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.