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.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860