Where secrecy reigns carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

~ Daniel C. Gelman

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Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

~ Bible

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Even in your thought do not curse the king nor in your bedchamber curse the rich for a bird of the air will carry your voice or some winged creature tell the matter.

~ Bible

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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

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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.

~ Samuel Johnson

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In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

~ Robert K. Massie

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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

~ Jeremy Taylor

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