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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

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