Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
LORD ACTONThe science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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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 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 is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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