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Originally Posted by RichardSimon
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A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both.
- James Madison
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
- Patrick Henry
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants
- Justice Louis Brandeis
Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
- Woodrow Wilson
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
- Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy is for losers.
- Senator Patrick Moynihan
They're on double-secret probation!
- Dean Vernon Wormer