Quotes: "Everything secret degenerates..."

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

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.--Deuteronomy (ch. 29, v. 29)

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.--Bill Moyers

**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.--Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and reformer

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.--Edward Teller

MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

ANSWER: Ron Paul