Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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More Lord Acton Quotes
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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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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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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