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

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

每一件秘密的事都会堕落,甚至司法也会堕落;没有一件事是安全的,它不能表明它如何能够忍受讨论和宣传。

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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

就我个人而言,我向你们所有人作出这样的承诺:分裂的政治、东方与西方的对立、城市与农村的对立、地区与地区的对立、人民与人民的对立,在我的行政管理中都没有立足之地。

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

没有公众的支持,就不会有公众的支持。没有公众的支持,每个国家都会衰落。

Without publicity there is no prosperity.

没有宣传就没有繁荣。