The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
LORD ACTONA public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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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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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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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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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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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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