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

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

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.