“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is… — 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 scarcely rose above an intermittend, embarrassed, and unscientific view. For religious liberty is composed of the properties both of religion and of liberty, and one of its factors never became an object of disinterested observation among… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share
“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 with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share
“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
