The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
LORD ACTONA convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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