The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
LORD ACTONThough oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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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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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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