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

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 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.

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

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

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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.

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