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Secrecy Is The First Essential In Affairs Of State.

First, All Means To Conciliate; Failing That, All Means To Crush.

Nothing So Upholds The Laws As The Punishment Of Persons Whose Rank Is As Great As Their Crime.

We May Employ Artifice To Deceive A Rival, Anything Against Our Enemies.

Give Me Six Lines Written By The Most Honorable Person Alive, And I Shall Find Enough In Them To Condemn Them To The Gallows.