Lord Acton Quotes (27 quotes)

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„Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.“
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„Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.“
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„To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.“
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„There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.“
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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.“
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„Learn as much by writing as by reading.“
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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.“
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„The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.“
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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.“
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„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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„Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.“
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„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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„Socialism means slavery.“
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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.“
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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.“
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„History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.“
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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.“
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„The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.“
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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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„Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.“
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Lord Acton
Author born: January 10, 1834
Author died: June 19, 1902
Nationality: British
Author Profession: Historian

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