Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
LORD ACTONThough oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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