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Lord Acton Quotes
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul (Lord Acton Quotes)
There should be a law to the People besides its own will (Lord Acton Quotes)
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton Quotes)
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice (Lord Acton Quotes)
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings (Lord Acton Quotes)
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force (Lord Acton Quotes)
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites (Lord Acton Quotes)
Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith (Lord Acton Quotes)
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin (Lord Acton Quotes)
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism (Lord Acton Quotes)
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence (Lord Acton Quotes)
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it (Lord Acton Quotes)
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history (Lord Acton Quotes)
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion (Lord Acton Quotes)
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character (Lord Acton Quotes)
Towns were the nursery of freedom (Lord Acton Quotes)
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong (Lord Acton Quotes)
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress (Lord Acton Quotes)
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness (Lord Acton Quotes)
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision (Lord Acton Quotes)
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth (Lord Acton Quotes)
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men’s minds (Lord Acton Quotes)
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles (Lord Acton Quotes)
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy (Lord Acton Quotes)
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife (Lord Acton Quotes)
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge (Lord Acton Quotes)
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong (Lord Acton Quotes)
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality (Lord Acton Quotes)
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton Quotes)
Learn as much by writing as by reading (Lord Acton Quotes)
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