Francis Walsingham Quotes

• There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

  Francis Walsingham

  Littles, Too Much, Danger

  Cited in U.S. News and World Report (27 January 2003)

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• I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

  Francis Walsingham

  Men, Done, Bears

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• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  Francis Walsingham

  Historical, Danger, Closed Minded

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• Knowledge is never too dear.

  Francis Walsingham

  Dear

  Quoted in Polmar and Allen, Encyclopedia of Espionage (1997).

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