"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
— Secrecy

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).