Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
LORD ACTONBefore 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.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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