There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
LORD ACTONI’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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Though 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.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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