Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

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.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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