Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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More Lord Acton Quotes
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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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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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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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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The 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.
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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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