36 Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
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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.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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