History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
LORD ACTONMonarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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