36 Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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

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.

Socialism means slavery.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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