I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
LORD ACTONIn England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Though 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.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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