It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar. — 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
