We don't need secrecy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.