Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
LORD ACTONProgress, the religion of those who have none.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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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 danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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