Charles Evans Hughes Country Quotations

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation