The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
LORD ACTONThe mills of God grind slowly.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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A 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.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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