It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
LORD ACTONDo not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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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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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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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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