Sir Walter Raleigh

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“Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

“Secrecy is the badge of fraud.”
—John, Sir Chadwick (b. 1941)

“All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)