We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.
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To be perfectly candid, we're better at stealing other people's secrets than anyone else in the world. But we self-limit. We steal secrets to keep our citizens free and safe.
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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