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

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

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

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.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

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

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