Top 17 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Quotes
#1. Great men are almost always bad men.
#2. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
#3. History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
#4. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
#5. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
#6. Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
#7. Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.
#8. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
#9. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
#10. Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
#11. When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
#12. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
#13. The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.
#14. Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
#15. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities
#16. 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.
#17. 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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