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Lord Acton108 quotes“Progress, the religion of those who have none.”
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
Lord ActonLord Acton At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
Lord ActonLord Acton Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
Lord ActonLord Acton The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
Lord ActonLord Acton Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
Lord ActonLord Acton Socialism means slavery.
Lord ActonLord Acton The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Lord ActonLord Acton Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord ActonLord Acton If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Lord ActonLord Acton If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord ActonLord Acton No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Lord ActonLord Acton It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Lord ActonLord Acton Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
Lord ActonLord Acton Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Lord ActonLord Acton Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
Lord ActonLord Acton At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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