I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy ena...
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
There always comes the day when children swallow the key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
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.
Brick could be the codename for Rick B. But why the need for secrecy? If I told you I’d have to blanket you.
Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.
Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other.
The secrecy of our existence is the key to our survival. The existence of a frail human will never stand upon that.' Lothaire
