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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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.

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

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