“The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.” — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the eighteenth century… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.” — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“No philosophy is cheaper or more vulgar than that which traces all history to diversities of ethnological type and blend, and is ever presenting… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their politics than… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
