Quotes about Secrecy

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

Certainly. Of course. That's part of it. And always coming to school or when we're going home, you're to walk with me, when there ain't anybody looking — and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that's the way you do when you're engaged.

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

one sin demands another to cover it.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?