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Lord Acton Quotes

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Power, Corrupts, Absolute
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Politics, Power, Corrupt
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Men, Power, History
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Later, Issue, Banks
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Business, Money, Beautiful
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Change, Moral, Fall
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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Power, Liberty, Ought
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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History, Soul, Memory
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
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Life, Past, Able
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Evil, Democracy, Rather
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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Justice, Show, Secret
Socialism means slavery.
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Means, Socialism, Slavery
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Short, Used, Losers
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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Faith, Good, Government
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End, Political, Liberty
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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Wise, Fool, Last
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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Ignorance, Simple, Cannot
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Government, Danger, Class
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
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Smile, Soul, Another
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
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Society, Evil, Rich
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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Nature, Force, Wild
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Men, Among, Error
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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Morning, Great, Today
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Best, Book, Others
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Politics,

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