Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
LORD ACTONDespotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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 danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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