It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
LORD ACTONFor centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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