17 Quotations by Lord Acton
- 1. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different time ...
- 2. And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with th ...
- 3. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not sh ...
- 4. I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make ...
- 5. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the pap ...
- 6. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, M ...
- 7. It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is ...
- 8. Learn as much by writing as by reading.
- 9. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- 10. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi ...
- 11. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of ...
- 12. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- 13. Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral ...
- 14. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- 15. The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrender ...
- 16. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e ...
- 17. There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can on ...
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