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.

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

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.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.