Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
LORD ACTONThe true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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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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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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