The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
LORD ACTONSocialism means slavery.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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