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 ACTONThe will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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