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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, Conspiracy, Secret Society

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  People, Important, Information

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• The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Giving, Good Man

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• The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

  George Washington

  Issues, Secret, Add

  To Colonel Elias Dayton, 26 July 1777; cited in Helgerson, CIA Briefings (1996). When President Kennedy visited CIA in January 1961 he saw this letter on display and asked for a copy of it. He later wrote to DCI Allen Dulles, "The letter is both a fine memento of my visit with you and a continuing reminder of the role of intelligence in national policy."

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• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Aquariums, Essentials, Firsts

  "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

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• That queen of secrecy, the violet.

  John Keats

  Queens, Flower, Violet

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.199

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• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wall, Government, United States

  "'A Massive Surveillance State': Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 07, 2013.

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• Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Wind, Sun

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

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• The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

  Terrence Howard

  Dream, Believe, Dark

  "Showbiz Tonight" with A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2006.

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• The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake issue because hardly anything technological remains a secret for very long.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Issues, Long

  "Interview with Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States". Interview with Sean Carswell and Todd Taylor, razorcake.org. October 18, 2001.

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• I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Modern Life, Mysterious, Thrive

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Able, Mystery

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.245, Wildside Press LLC

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• Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Presidential, Democracy

  Quoted in Merle Miller, Plain Speaking (1974). This from the man who presided over the creation of CIA.

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• Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

  Francis Bacon

  Way, Suits, Towards Success

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• In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

  Isak Dinesen

  Men, Ugly Things, Secret

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.61, Vintage

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• We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.

  David Lange

  Technology, Numbers, Hypocrisy

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Great Design

  Charles Caleb Colton (1812). “Hypocrisy: A Satire”, p.167

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• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  Harry Houdini

  Honor, Assistants, Allegiance

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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