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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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.

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

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.

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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

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