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.

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

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

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

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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