A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
LORD ACTONThe 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.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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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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In every age its 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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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