A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
LORD ACTONJudge talent at its best and character at its worst.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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The 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.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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Socialism means slavery.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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