There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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.

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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

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

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

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.

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