Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice;

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1 – Bible

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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. – Anne Dudley Bradstreet

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For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10 – Bible

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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. – Francis Bacon

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