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- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton
- Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Lord Acton
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
- Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 1887
- There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 5 Apr 1887
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