Official truth is not actual truth.
LORD ACTONThe danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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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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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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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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.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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