Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
LORD ACTONThose who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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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’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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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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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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