Emerich Quotes

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

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. We are as happy as we think we are.

Debasish Mridha

#4. 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

#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. 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

#8. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#10. So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.

John-Talmage Mathis

#11. It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Alan Moore

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

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#13. 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

#14. Great men are almost always bad men.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#15. That's a dangerous look," said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road.
"What look?" I asked innocently.
"The one that says you just got some idea."
"I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.

Richelle Mead

#16. The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

Natasha Lyonne

#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. Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

Tim Cook

#22. 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

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

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#24. Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

Hans F. Sennholz

#25. 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