Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men.
Roosevelt believes that scrutiny and criticism encourage judges to make fair decisions.
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