Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
LORD ACTONA convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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