Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty. — 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
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of… — 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
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country. — Lord 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… — 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
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — 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… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — 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
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to… — 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
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