Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to… — Jeremy Bentham · Skopia

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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

1832

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Bentham, Jeremy. Publicity in the Courts of Justice. 1843.

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