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You're reading an early draft of The George Washington Book of Quotes. Your responses help shape the final book.

The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged. All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated.

— George Washington ·