Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977
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Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I 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