Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
LORD ACTONIf some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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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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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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