“If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of power among several States is the best check on democracy..” — Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve… — Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide of conduct, than the laws of each country; that Plato, whose sublime doctrine was so near an anticipation of Christianity that celebrated theologians wished his works to be forbidden, lest men should be content with them,… — Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share
“If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of power among… — Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
