Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
We don't need secrecy.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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.