The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
