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LAW & HISTORY > historian > John Dalberg Acton
Every thing secret...
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Source: Letter, 23 Jan 1861; in Lord Acton and his Circle, ed. Abbot Gasquet, 1906.
-- John Dalberg Acton, (Jan 10 1834-1902), English historian; He was a noted Christian liberal who edited The Rambler and planned the Cambridge Modern History.