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.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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

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

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.