Secrecy Quotes

“Secrecy is the badge of fraud.”

“If you're not a part of it, you're not a part of it.”

“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.”

“The first rule of magic: never tell a layman how a trick is done.”

“Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”

“Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.”

“The omertà, the code of silence, was the strongest drug of all.”

“They're not going to tell you... They're not going to tell you anything. That's what you've got to understand.”

“Let this circumstance of our constitution be remarked, that our superiors are known to us, but we are not known to them.”

“We're not going to talk business here.”

“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics.”

“I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details.”

“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.”

“I wouldn't tell the President everything.”

“Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.”

“I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or to anyone else! And I never would.”

“They are using 'national security' as a pretext to cover up their own criminal activities.”

“There's a knock at the door, you don't ask who it is. That's the way we were brought up.”

“Secrecy is the enemy of democracy.”

“The Freedom of Information Act is the bane of my existence.”