At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
LORD ACTONI have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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 long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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