Lord Acton Quotes & Quotations

Lord Acton Quotes

» 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.

» Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

» The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

» Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

» To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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

» 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.

» The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

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