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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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

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

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.

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

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