Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
LORD ACTONMoral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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