But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
LORD ACTONI’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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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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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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