Dalberg Quotes

#1. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#2. The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#3. 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.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#4. When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

Conor McGregor

#5. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#6. Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#7. No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.

Tomas Transtromer

#8. The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#9. In the end, he relented as her look of determination reminded him a bit of an angry cat trying to be a tiger.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#10. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#11. When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#12. It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

Barbra Streisand

#13. I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Kamala Harris

#14. Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#15. Great men are almost always bad men.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#16. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#17. Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#18. Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#19. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#20. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#21. We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

Geoffrey Gray

#22. I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Inga Muscio

#23. For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for opposition and another for office. History

John Emerich Edward Dalberg

#24. History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#25. I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#26. God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

Andrew Bonar

#27. I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

Keith Richards

#28. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton