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What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

It is up to the government to keep the government's 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.

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.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

A secret is a weapon and a friend.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

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.