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The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion. (Lord Acton Quotes)
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology. (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)
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton Quotes)
Learn as much by writing as by reading (Lord Acton Quotes)
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers (Lord Acton Quotes)
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections (Lord Acton Quotes)
Great men are almost always bad men (Lord Acton Quotes)
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions (Lord Acton Quotes)
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history (Lord Acton Quotes)
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law (Lord Acton Quotes)
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality (Lord Acton Quotes)
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited (Lord Acton Quotes)
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust (Lord Acton Quotes)
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality (Lord Acton Quotes)
Official truth is not actual truth (Lord Acton Quotes)
Progress, the religion of those who have none (Lord Acton Quotes)
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances (Lord Acton Quotes)
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar (Lord Acton Quotes)
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power (Lord Acton Quotes)
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority (Lord Acton Quotes)
Liberty is the prevention of control by others (Lord Acton Quotes)
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth (Lord Acton Quotes)
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things (Lord Acton Quotes)
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst (Lord Acton Quotes)
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding (Lord Acton Quotes)
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved (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)
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)
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers (Lord Acton Quotes)