. 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.
LORD ACTONI’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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