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  • So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. (Harold Acton (59))
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  • The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. (Harold Acton (59))
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  • By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. (John Acton (59))
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  • By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. (John Acton (59))
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  • Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. (John Acton (59))
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  • History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. (John Acton (59))
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  • If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. (John Acton (59))
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  • Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. (John Acton (59))
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  • Liberty is the prevention of control by others. (John Acton (59))
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  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (John Acton (59))
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  • Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. (John Acton (59))
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  • The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. (John Acton (59))
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  • The greatest men, you can quote for everything. (John Acton (59))
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  • The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (John Acton (59))
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  • 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. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. (Lord Acton (59))
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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. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Learn as much by writing as by reading. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • 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. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • Socialism means slavery. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • 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. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • 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. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. (Lord Acton (59))
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  • To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. (Lord Acton (59))
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