It was not a state secret that I would call on Thackeray. I was not hiding anything.
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A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
A secret is a secret in my mind.
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.
Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay 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.
In those days secrets were well kept.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.