Talleyrand said that, but you never heard of him.

Excessive suspicion is not a good thing.

It was your chief fault as an overseer, although I willingly pay tribute to your energy and attention to detail.

This business of hunting spies is greatly overdone.

The fate of Vicksburg will be settled by the cannon and the rifles." "But, sir, they can do us great harm." "Listen to that, my good Slade." The deep booming note of the distant cannon entered the cave.
"That is the sound of Grant's guns.