Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
LORD ACTONA convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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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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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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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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