The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
LORD ACTONFalse principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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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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