History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
LORD ACTONIt is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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 wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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