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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

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.

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.