Socialism means slavery.
LORD ACTONDemocracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
More Lord Acton Quotes
-
-
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
LORD ACTON -
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
LORD ACTON -
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
LORD ACTON -
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
LORD ACTON -
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.
LORD ACTON -
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
LORD ACTON -
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
LORD ACTON -
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
LORD ACTON -
The mills of God grind slowly.
LORD ACTON -
Great men are almost always bad men.
LORD ACTON -
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
LORD ACTON -
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
LORD ACTON -
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
LORD ACTON -
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON -
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
LORD ACTON