Edward Snowden Quotes

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I'm really bad at keeping secrets.

There are no secrets.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

Tell never thy counsel to thy foe.

What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

Trust comes from transparency…

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.