| 15 Famous Quotes by Lord Acton
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“To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.”
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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.”
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“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”
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“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.”
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“The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.”
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“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
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“Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.”
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“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
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“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”
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“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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“Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”
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“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.”
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“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Lord Acton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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