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The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.


Lysander Spooner

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DON SIRIANI A secret shared is no more a secret.
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DANIEL CRAIG The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
HENNY YOUNGMAN The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
HENRY YOUNGMAN It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.
STEPHEN KING A secret makes a woman woman
GOSHO AOYAMA The secret to live the best life is to let your secret die with you as a secret!
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JOHN C. MAXWELL The good thing about a secret is that women don’t know what a secret is.
VIKRANT PARSAI The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently a...
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VOLTAIRE The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY The secret of getting things done is to act!
DANTE ALIGHIERI I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
BARRY HUMPHRIES A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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SETH GODIN The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
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GENE LUEN YANG The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
THUCYDIDES The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
CARRIE JONES A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
ELBERT HUBBARD The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT More and more government entities hammer out deals in secret and announce them once every last detai...
BILL LUEDERS I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who...
LISA LEE I'm a Victoria's Secret model. It's such a secret, not even Victoria knows.
ANONYMOUS I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Used to, we were the best-kept secret. We aren't a secret anymore.
BRUCE WALKER There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.
KEVIN THOMAN Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
RICHARD VON WEIZSAECKER The secret to living life , is to find that secret.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
YASH CHOPRA The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
MIKE MURDOCK To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
ANNA PAVLOVA Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
STEVEN TYLER It's not a surprise that the government wants this to be secret, but it's extraordinary for a court ...
CHRIS DUNN It is a secret?
BOBBY FLAY The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.
PHYLLIS ROSE South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secre...
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HANK DROUGHT Secrets tear you apart.
MITCH ALBOM Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
ORSON SCOTT CARD As dangerous as a secret.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make...
DEB CALETTI Life's irony;What one person regards as secret is another person's selling point.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the ...
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BAYAN JABOR The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
SALVADOR DALI The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret
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HUNGARIAN PROVERB Heck, no, I can't tell the secret ingredient. Because it's a secret, I can never tell.
BRAD COSENZA I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
KATHERINE HEIGL Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'
HAFIZ OF PERSIA Secret of wealth;Everyday investment,even as minute as $1.
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SETH GODIN A Secret History of the I.R.A.
ED MOLONEY Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
HENRY FORD The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
G. WILHELM LEIBNIZ Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF We have several entertainers planned for the evening. One is a puppeteer, but his act is a secret. T...
DON SIPPEL Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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